Related Issue 2: Chapter 5; Part 2

Question 1

In what ways can a totalitarian government establish complete control of all aspects of the state?

Answer 1

Politically
Militarily
Economically
Socially
Culturally

Question 2

How can a totalitarian government become highly nationalistic?

Answer 2

Through Flags, Salutes, Rallies and uniforms

Question 3

How can a totalitarian government create a military state?

Answer 3

Through implementing secret police, an army and a military

Question 4

What will a totalitarian government censor?

Answer 4

Opposing literature and ideas

Question 5

What means will a totalitarian government use to spread propaganda?

Answer 5

Media: Radio, newspapers, posters

Question 6

What does the leader of a totalitarian govt act like?

Answer 6

Very Chrismatic

Question 7

What type of govt’s use totalitarian regimes?

Answer 7

• Nazi Germany
• Stalin’s Soviet Union
• China under Mao Zedong
• Cambodia under Khmer Rouge

Question 8

What is the goal of totalitarianism? And how was this achieved?

Answer 8

To create a perfect society out of imperfect human beings required a high level of coercive control of every facet of life

Question 9

What is the goal of Authoritarian governments?

Answer 9

To maintain control of existing society. Cercion is used against perceived enemies of the state

Question 10

How is the leader perceived in a totalitarianism government?

Answer 10

The leader is perceived as wise, paternal and charasmatic

Question 11

What are the characteristics of a totalitarian government?

Answer 11

• Official, total and comprehensive
• Exploits popular fears and prejudices
• Ideology inspires and legitimates a revolutionary break from the past

Question 12

What does a totalitarian government use to convince the public to become elected?

Answer 12

• Provides a scapegoat for past wrongs
• Explains present sacrifices
• Promises a future of peace and plenty

Question 13

What is the political party like in a totalitarian govt?

Answer 13

• A single political party serves as the leader and promotes the ideology
• Party becomes subservient to the leader
• No opposing opinions allowed after time

Question 14

what does a totalitarian govt do against its enemies?

Answer 14

Mobilizes against them

Question 15

How do totalitarian governments monitor and control citizens?

Answer 15

Through secret police

Question 16

What kind of organizations do totalitarian govts take control of?

Answer 16

Schools
The arts
Clubs
News
Media
Labour Unions
Universities
Churches
The economy

Question 17

What does the use of terror and violence do to a totalitarian society?

Answer 17

• Smooths the way to takeover
• Creates an atmosphere of crisis and political instability
• Dramatizes the inability of the old govt to provide security

Question 18

What do totalitarian govts do to people who they perceive as future rivals?

Answer 18

They eliminate them out of paranoia

Question 19

What does violence do for dictators?

Answer 19

• Enhances a leaders status
• Brings economic gain when they confiscate property of victims
• Punishes political opponents by discourages future dissent
• Destroys a group completely or solidifies support among other groups

Question 20

When is terror useful?

Answer 20

In the short term

Question 21

What is the goal of terror?

Answer 21

To produce extreme fear in populace to paralyze them into lack of resistance

Question 22

What are the characteristics of terror?

Answer 22

• Arbitrary and unpredictable

* Creates an emotional psychological state

Question 23

What is violence and terror in relation to resistance?

Answer 23

Violence is a reaction to resistance while terror prevents resistance from ever happening

Question 24

What is a radical totalitarian regime?

Answer 24

A complete rejection of the political economic traditions of the past, move to a classless society with state ownership

Question 25

What would be an example of radical totalitarianism?

Answer 25

Former USSR

Question 26

What is a reactionary totalitarian regime?

Answer 26

The change desired is a move toward a idealized past and acceptance of economic equality

Question 27

What is an example of a reactionary totalitarian regime?

Answer 27

Nazi Regime

Question 28

What was Nazi Germany and the former USSR in relation to liberalism?

Answer 28

Their totalitarianism was an attempt to hold off and reject the beliefs and values of liberalism

Question 29

What were the contributing factors to totalitarianism in Russia and Germany?

Answer 29

Authoritarianism Communism in Russia Defeat of Germany in WW1

Question 30

What did the USSR flag have on it?

Answer 30

A hammer and scythe

Question 31

What do the hammer and scythe represent?

Answer 31

Industrialization and collectivized agriculture

Question 32

What does a swastika represent?

Answer 32

Luck

Question 33

What are the commonalities between the USSR and Nazi Germany?

Answer 33

* New technologies made totalitarianism possible and allowed leader control * Turned away from the individual and limited democratic govts * Favored the collective * Both had one party rule