HISTORY YEAR 9

UNIT 4 BETWEEN THE WARS: ABROAD

4.2 THE TWO TYPES OF DICTATORSHIP

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OBJECTIVES 4 . 2 T W O T Y P E S O F D I C TAT O R S H I P

IDENTIFY AND
EXPLAIN HOW
AND WHERE
DEFINE
THESE TWO
FASCISM AND OBJECTIVES
EXTREME
COMMUNISM
POLITICAL
BELIEFS TOOK
HOLD
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TYPES OF GOVERNMENT
In the previous unit, we
learnt about the two
types of government

Dictatorship can be
divided further into
DEMOCRACY DICTATORSHIP
COMMUNISM
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and FASCISM

They’re both dictatorship government, right?

COMMUNISM FASCISM
Are there any differences between these two??

Political theory created by Karl

Marx to make a society in which all
property is OWNED by the
government. Each person works and
gets paid according to their needs
and abilities
FASCISM is an anti-democratic
government system developed by
Mussolini in Italy and Hitler in
Germany
 4 . 2 T W O T Y P E S O F D I C TAT O R S H I P Idea behind
Believed fascismthat
strongly is –
Money and goods will if everyone
some worked
races are better
be shared out equally together, the Believed
than others. country
to everyone in the will become
that much
men were
country COMMUNISM FA S C I S M stronger
superior to women.
E.g. RUSSIA E.g. ITALY No equality

COMMUNISM was SIMILARITIES FASCISM was practised

practised in RUSSIA and National glory in ITALY
later in GERMANY Economic equality Anti-democratic
Now let’s take a look at the
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Rigid class roles set

SIMILARITIES
Classless society Societal well- and the
by dictator
being
DIFFERENCES between the two types
Opposes private of dictatorship
State control of Supports private
BOTH : believe
enterprises
resources democracyenterprises
isn’t an
There will be no ‘very effective system to
BOTH: Wanted to build
rich’ or ‘very poor’ govern a country
a society that doesn’t
people in the country need to worry about
Preferred to keep all Welcomed and
money – everything BOTH: Everything
economy and income encouraged private
will be shared equally harvested, farmed and
under government’s companies to invest –
obtained from the soil and
control willing to share incone
grounds is controlled by
the government alone
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Questions (Complete it in
Textbook - page 122
your notebook)

1) Why do you think the rich people across

Europe feared the spread of communism?
DO

2) Explain the main differences in

communism and fascism.