Intro to Authoritarian and Single Party States

Agenda 9/12:

Students worked in groups, researching and presenting different case studies of authoritarian and single party states. They used the IB unit objectives to structure their research and presentation:

• Conditions that produced authoritarian and single-party states
• Emergence of leaders: aims, ideology, support
• Establishment of authoritarian and single-party states: methods, force, legal
• Forms of authoritarian and single-party governments, left and right wing ideology
• Nature, extent, and treatment of opposition 

Students chose one of these case studies:

• North Korea - 1948 until present
• North Vietnam - 1945-1976
• Argentina - 1970s-1983
• Italy - Benito Mussolini 1922-1943
• Spain - Francisco Franco 1936-1975
• Uganda - Idi Amin 1971-1979
• Cambodia - Pol Pot 1975-1979
• Iraq - Saddam Hussein 1979-2003

DUE: 

Read section 4.1 in Pearson (pgs. 97-108) - Friday 9/17

Define Stalin Vocab and prepare for VOCAB QUIZ - Monday 9/20