“THE HAPPINESS ADVANTAGE”  DAY 11:  3 things you are grateful for in the present.  5 minute  Repeat after me: “I will DOMINATE that test! Street Art courtesy of Mr. Long

Methods of Enforcement 1)Police Terror – Police serve to enforce policies. Use terror, spying, intimidation, and violence to force obedience. 2)Indoctrination – Instructions in gov. beliefs to mold minds. Control of education is key. Starts at a young age. 3)Propaganda/Censorship – Control all media: nothing is allowed to exist without gov. OK. 4)Religion/Ethnic Persecution – Creates “enemies of the state” as scapegoats: usually religious or ethnic groups and subject to terror and violence.

“THE HAPPINESS ADVANTAGE”  DAY 12:  3 things you are grateful for in the present.  5 minute  Repeat after me: “I will DOMINATE that test!

Last time in World History….

Stalin Builds a Totalitarian State

How did he do it?  1) Built a Police State to maintain power.  Monitored phone lines, read mail and planted informants  2) Great Purge – , a campaign of terror to eliminate anyone (Bolsheviks) that threatened his power  Began with “show trials”  Executed “guilty” or sent them to forced labor camps – “Gulags”

3) Propaganda/Censorship  Stalin’s gov. controlled all newspapers, motion pictures, radios, etc.  Stalin would not tolerate individual creativity  Media glorified Stalin, communism, programs  Page 446

 Controlled all schools K-University  Professors or students that questioned them faced consequences  Wanted to replace religion with communism  Advocated for “atheism”  Stalin’s “total control” eliminated personal rights & freedoms 4) Indoctrination/Religious Persecution

Stalin Controls Economy  1928, calls for a “Command Economy” (?)  The Five-Year Plans – set impossible quotes on output of steal, coal, oil, electricity  Collective farms – Gov. seized over 25M farms to increase agi. Production.  Eliminated those that resisted  By 1938, 90% of peasants lived on C.F.  Did it work? P.444

Daily Life Under Stalin  Women’s roles expanded: joined labor force  Careers in science, engineering, medicine  People were better educated, mastered new technical skills …but at what cost?