Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
AUTHORITARISM AND TOTALITARIANISM - Coggle Diagram
AUTHORITARISM AND TOTALITARIANISM
FACTORS
FIRST WORLD WAR
habits of military organisation
chain of command and comradeship
soldiers found it difficult to adapt to civilian
life after returning from the war
WAR
nationalist feeling
reinforced by
economic crisis 1939
implementation of protectionist policies
POWER OF THE
STATE INCREASED
state intervened in the economy and society
NEW PARTIES
working masses
discontented
unemployment
low wages
land distribution
CHARACTERISTICS
POLITICS
authoritarian dictatorship
charismatic leader who possessed
absolute political power
a political party
supported him
anti-democratic
no political parties
no trade unions
no free elections
no freedom of press
no right to meet and associate
no freedom of expression or to demonstrate
FOREIGN
POLICY
expansionist
foreign policy
gain new territories, markets and raw materials
ECONOMY
state intervened and controlled the economy
companies were nationalised
public work
programmes
reduce unemployment
imports
minimalised
benefit national production
SOCIETY
almost all classes supported regime
controlled by state
believed that they provided a solution to problems
METHODS
PROPAGANDA
monopolised by the state
promote its ideology and censure opposition
CULTURE
controlled by the state
the aims was to insti a code
of behavior according to ideology
POLICY OF
DEPRESSION
secret police and
civil servants
find people opposed to the system
VIOLENCE
used by army and
paramilitary groups
control opposed the state's ideology