Authoritarian and Single Party States: Themes

Students selected a country and did some basic research, focusing on the major themes for the unit on single-party and authoritarian states:

• Conditions that produced authoritarian and single party states 
• Emergence of leaders: aims, ideology, support 
• Totalitarianism: the aim and the extent to which it was achieved 
• Establishment of authoritarian and single-party states Methods: force, legal/illegal
• Form of government, (left-and right-wing) ideology 
• Nature, extent and treatment of opposition

Students made posters and compared and contrasted different countries using these themes. I directed students to the first 10 pages in the Pearson text to get them familiarized with the unit.