Essay plan Mao and Hitler. Compare and contrast the rise to power of two rulers of single party states.
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Essay Plan Mao. Compare and contrast the rise to power of two rulers of single party states.
Thesis: Hitler and Mao’s rise to power differed mainly on their political career and party leadership. Yet both shared strong ideologies, which helped them in their rise to power.
Paragraph 1: Both Hitler and Mao used propaganda in order to address the middle classes and peasants, who represented the majority of the population.
- Hitler: Lebensraum - attract working class. Mein Kampf - master Aryan race. Anti-Semite polices – attract NSADP members (1920 – 20 members, 1928 – 108,000 members).
- Mao: The Eight Rules of Discipline - approach to the peasants. Cult of Mao – peasants, who represented 95% of the Chinese population, worshiped Maoism (1937 CCP 100,000 had members, 1945 CCP had 1.2 million members).
- Interpretation: David Welch – propaganda is always key in the rise to power of any single state, especially that which involves the cult of a leader, where such leader is presented as mystical.