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Key Traits of Totalitarianism
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Dictatorship and one-party rule
• Exercise absolute authority
• Dominate government
Dynamic leader
• Unites people
• Symbolizes government
• Encourages popular support through force
Ideology
• Set goals/beliefs of state
• Glorifies aims of state
State control of individuals
• Demand loyalty
• Deny basic liberties
• Personal sacrifice for good of state
State control of society
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Business
Labor
Housing
Education
Religion
Arts
Personal life
youth
Methods of enforcement
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Police terror
Indoctrination
Censorship
persecution
Modern technology
• Mass communication to spread propaganda