1. Rise of Totalitarianism
By Madison engler

2. Totalitarianism
- (n) Absolute control by the state or a governing branch of a highly centralized institution.

3. Features of Totalitarianism
1) Cult of Personality
2) Radical Ideology
3) Organization
4) Mass Mobilization and Indoctrination
5) Use of Secret Police
6) Central Control
7) Use of Terror and Violence

4. Totalitarian Leaders of the 20th Century
- The most well known totalitarian leaders of the 20th century were Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini. - Hitler ruled Germany, Stalin ruled Russia, and Mussolini Italy.

5. How They Rose to Power
- Cult of Personality: “a situation in which a public figure (such as a political leader) is deliberately presented to the people of a country as a great person who should be admired and loved”
- Propaganda: Many things such as posters were put up supporting and encouraging these leaders. This spread their ideas and their cause.

6. Fear and Terror
- Terror was used to produce an extreme fear to paralyze the citizens into an utter lack of resistance
- Hitler, Lenin, and Stalin all used terror and violence to rise to power
- Terror and violence allowed radical transformation and for totalitarian leaders to maintain control over society
 Stalin’s purges

7. Hitler - Totalitarian leader of Germany - Use of secret police
- Nationalism, racism, mass killings
- Leader of the Nazi Party

8. Stalin - Totalitarian leader of the USSR (Russia)
- Creation of a police state
- Used terror, fear, mass killings, the Gulag system
- Collectivization & the 5 year plan for industrialization

9. Mussolini - Totalitarian leader of Italy - Rise of extreme fascism
- Police state, propaganda, extreme nationalism

10. References
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