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I am a IB M22 graduate, who achieved 43/45, and 7s in HL History, English, and Biology. This is a summary of the historiography (historian perspectives and quotes) for Paper 2 of IB History, and the topic Authoritarian States, looking at Hitler, Castro, and Mao

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IB History SL/HL Paper 2 - Authoritarian States - Historian perspectives/quotes
Hitler

Without the product of a lost war, Hitler would have remained a nobody. Kershaw

Hitler projected "dynamism and strength" in absolute contrast to his Evans
surroundings during the depression

Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, Alan Bullock
the Enabling Law

Hitler was a systematic thinker Trevor Roper

Believed Hitler made competition on purpose to keep himself on the top Trevor Roper

There never had been any ideological deviation or wavering determination Lucy Dawidowicz (holocaust)

What Hitler did was "advertise unoriginal ideas in an original way" Kershaw

Hitler's domestic policies... drew upon historic Germanic values and Peukert
projected them against contemporary problems

The SS, the Gestapo, and the Judicial system were blurred to act as one Korst
reactionary unit against Nazi opposition

The Hitler Youth... was a deliberate long-term investment in military Evans
security

The aryan mother was the "transmitter of German culture, guardian of Johnathan Moch
racial purity and supporter of national economic policy"

It is not truth that matters, but victory Adolf Hitler, last will and
testament

Castro

Castro's attack on the Moncada Barracks was inspired by patriotism. Herbert Matthews

Social and economic problems provided the necessary conditions, Castro Eckstein
was the spark

He had won the sympathy of the rural population... his triumph was Camarcho
absolute

It was in the cities that the outcome of the revolution would in great part, be Cannon
determined

The political opposition created a climate that facilitated Castro's action Charles D Ameringer

Guerrilla warfare would undermine the government's superior strength. Waller

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