1. Terms re-cap and a little bit of history

2. Terms: BIG BROTHER
DO NOT THINK
DO NOT QUESTION
OBEY. COMPLY. CONFORM.

3. Big Brother
Do you drive a car?  Do you watch television?  Do you use a cell phone? Do you use loyalty cards? Do you use the internet? If you do any of those things, information about you is being recorded and tracked.
Satellites – Google Earth does more than take photos!
Cameras and listening devices on streets, in shops etc
Lack of privacy

4. Terms – POLICE STATE DO NOT THINK DO NOT QUESTION
OBEY. COMPLY. CONFORM.
Secret police
Outside of the law

5. A Police State
People restricted in their mobility, and in their freedom to express or communicate political or other views
People subjected to police monitoring or enforcement.
Political control may be exerted by means of a secret police force which operates outside the boundaries of a normal society.

6. The Soviet Union and East Germany
extensive and repressive police and intelligence services (KGB)
approximately 2.5% of the East German adult population served as informants for the Stasi (600 in GC = 15 unknown informants!)
Nazi Germany: a dictatorship brought in gradually
repressive control over its people in the lead-up to World War II.
Used the SS and the Gestapo to assert control over the population from the 1930s until the end of the war.
Apartheid: the South African government
banning people and organizations
arresting political prisoners
maintaining segregated living communities
restricting movement and access

7. Terms – TOTALITARIANISM
DO NOT THINK
DO NOT QUESTION
OBEY. COMPLY. CONFORM.

8. Totalitarianism Totalitarian regime strategies include:
Having a dictatorship
Employing only one ruling party
Rule through fear
Censorship of media
Propaganda in media, government speeches and through education
Criticism of the state is prohibited
Mandatory military sign up
Secret police forces
Controlling reproduction of the population (either in hopes to increase or to decrease)
Targeting of specific religious or political populations

9. Totalitarianism
Joseph Stalin – The Soviet Union. He took over the country and began executing any people who were not in alignment with the goals of the state.
Benito Mussolini –Italy in 1922 became the leader of the nation and immediately began to rule in a totalitarian manner. 
Adolf Hitler employed totalitarianism as a means to attempt to achieve an obedient nation that was his personal vision for the country.
North Korea – North Korea has been ruled by the same family since The family has been running the country based on the concept of self-reliance.
Mao Zedong – From 1949, when he established the People's Republic of China, until his death in 1976.

10. Why would a state/government want to control the following?
Church
family
economy
school
media
For each heading come up with at least two benefits for state and two dangers for people when the state controls each of these areas: eg. Benefit for state: If the state controls the church they can tell you that their god/gods put them in power so they must be obeyed = control through divine right

11. GUY FAWKES
REMEMBER, REMEMBER, THE FIFTH OF NOVEMEBER, GUNPOWDER, TREASON AND PLOT. I KNOW OF NO REASON WHY THE GUNPOWDER TREASON SHOULD EVER BE FORGOT.

12. GUY FAWKES The facts: 5th November – 1605
Gang of Catholics planned to blow up Parliament while King James I was in the building
King James and Parliament would not let them practise their religion

13. Cellar under the House of Lords came up for rent! Hooray!
Throne
House of Lords
Cellar
Cross-section of the House of Lords, by Sir John Soane, Parliamentary Archives

15. hung
The prisoner was hung but cut loose just before they lost consciousness.
Their stomach was then sliced open and their guts pulled out.
drawn
The heart would be pulled out last, and shown to the dying person.
quartered
Finally, the head would be cut off and the body cut into four quarters.