SL History Notes: Authoritarian States
Dictator Hitler Castro Mao
Rise ● Good public ● Also, good ● Due to his ideology,
speaker with a lot public and Mao focused on
of charisma emotive public the peasantry
● Clear ideology speaker, used instead of the
that become more this skill in his proletariat,
flexible with time spreading of therefore escaping
so he could propaganda to the GMD’s
appeal to many the media that prosecution of
demographics at visited him in communists with
the same Sierra Maestra the White Terror
time->nationalists, and also in ● Chiang Kai-shek
upper riling up the became unpopular
class/working locals to join due to the failure to
class- having a him in the meet economic
fixed ideology led revolution improvement
to failure (Munich ● Had two failed promises and not
Putsch) while attempts of a doing anything
having a more coup/invasion about the
flexible and at the Japanese threat
adaptable beginning ● His focus on the
approach had ● His ‘History will peasantry got him
more success Absolve me’ expelled from the
(appealing to speech Committee, but
many people, ● He wanted to during this time he
forming a coalition rid the trained guerrillas
with another RW government of and gained support
party) corruption, from the Chinese
● 25-point program, provide better peasantry ->
speech at trial, education, free popular due to his
Mein Kampf quality promises of
● National healthcare and education for all,
socialism, independence land reform and
Fuhrerprinzip, and auto women’s rights
Lebensraum, sufficiency for ● The 1943 Long
abolition of TOV, Cuba from March, was
auto sufficiency America->want essential in his
● He wasn’t popular ed to focus on success
during the Golden economic ● Civil War- had the
Age, his growth and massive numbers
popularity social reform as the Long March
increased after ● Should be able had attracted many
the Wall Street to use any supporters, and
Crash as seen in means possible also due to Mao’s
the difference in since the good strategy
, seats in Reichstag opposers were
->18.5% in 1930, willing to do
34.4% in 1933 anything to get
● Weimar Republic him down
failed to handle ● There were
the economic other groups
crisis all and political
Chancellors opposition to
before (Bruining, Batista -
von Papen, von Autenticos
Schleicher) Party, Student
offered little relief Revolutionary
-> Hindenburg Directorate
was left with little ● Under Batista
option but to elect there was a lot
him Chancellor, of corruption,
Schleicher also all money and
pressured him land was going
into it as he to American
thought he would monopoly
be able to control companies,
Hitler people lived in
● Article 48, allowed poverty even in
chancellor to rule urban areas.
without consulting ● Used guerrilla
Reichstag if a warfare many
state of times, he was
emergency was also cornered
declared by Batista’s
● Enabling Act army many
1933- basically times but he
allowed him to do was let go
whatever because
● Kapp Putsch 1920 America
● Spartacist thought that if
Revolution 1919 they killed him
there would be
serious
consequences,
there was
already civil
unrest as
Batista had
increased
number of
public
executions
Dictator Hitler Castro Mao
Rise ● Good public ● Also, good ● Due to his ideology,
speaker with a lot public and Mao focused on
of charisma emotive public the peasantry
● Clear ideology speaker, used instead of the
that become more this skill in his proletariat,
flexible with time spreading of therefore escaping
so he could propaganda to the GMD’s
appeal to many the media that prosecution of
demographics at visited him in communists with
the same Sierra Maestra the White Terror
time->nationalists, and also in ● Chiang Kai-shek
upper riling up the became unpopular
class/working locals to join due to the failure to
class- having a him in the meet economic
fixed ideology led revolution improvement
to failure (Munich ● Had two failed promises and not
Putsch) while attempts of a doing anything
having a more coup/invasion about the
flexible and at the Japanese threat
adaptable beginning ● His focus on the
approach had ● His ‘History will peasantry got him
more success Absolve me’ expelled from the
(appealing to speech Committee, but
many people, ● He wanted to during this time he
forming a coalition rid the trained guerrillas
with another RW government of and gained support
party) corruption, from the Chinese
● 25-point program, provide better peasantry ->
speech at trial, education, free popular due to his
Mein Kampf quality promises of
● National healthcare and education for all,
socialism, independence land reform and
Fuhrerprinzip, and auto women’s rights
Lebensraum, sufficiency for ● The 1943 Long
abolition of TOV, Cuba from March, was
auto sufficiency America->want essential in his
● He wasn’t popular ed to focus on success
during the Golden economic ● Civil War- had the
Age, his growth and massive numbers
popularity social reform as the Long March
increased after ● Should be able had attracted many
the Wall Street to use any supporters, and
Crash as seen in means possible also due to Mao’s
the difference in since the good strategy
, seats in Reichstag opposers were
->18.5% in 1930, willing to do
34.4% in 1933 anything to get
● Weimar Republic him down
failed to handle ● There were
the economic other groups
crisis all and political
Chancellors opposition to
before (Bruining, Batista -
von Papen, von Autenticos
Schleicher) Party, Student
offered little relief Revolutionary
-> Hindenburg Directorate
was left with little ● Under Batista
option but to elect there was a lot
him Chancellor, of corruption,
Schleicher also all money and
pressured him land was going
into it as he to American
thought he would monopoly
be able to control companies,
Hitler people lived in
● Article 48, allowed poverty even in
chancellor to rule urban areas.
without consulting ● Used guerrilla
Reichstag if a warfare many
state of times, he was
emergency was also cornered
declared by Batista’s
● Enabling Act army many
1933- basically times but he
allowed him to do was let go
whatever because
● Kapp Putsch 1920 America
● Spartacist thought that if
Revolution 1919 they killed him
there would be
serious
consequences,
there was
already civil
unrest as
Batista had
increased
number of
public
executions
