Political Systems

Question 1

describe what dictatorship is

Answer 1

a form of government characterised by a single leader or group and they make rules with no one else’s input and have absolute power. eg Tsar’s

Question 2

describe democracy

Answer 2

a form of government elected by the citizen’s by voting. eg Britain

Question 3

communism

Answer 3

a political system in which everyone is equal and there’s no centre of power as everything is shared among everyone.

Question 4

what do capitalists believe

Answer 4

that money should be made by private ownership’s and most of the money is kept by owners for profit rather than being shared equally among workers.

Question 5

totalitarian

Answer 5

government controls every aspect of people’s lives and deny ordinary individuals the right to make any decisions. eg North Korea and Nazi Germany

Question 6

constitutional monarchy

Answer 6

king or queen as head of the state but don’t have any real power as decisions are made by government eg UK

Question 7

absolute monarchy

Answer 7

king or queen has all the power it can be described as ‘A dictatorship by the Monarchy’ eg Tsar’s Russia

Question 8

socialism

Answer 8

a form of communism but has currency

Question 9

explain the definition of a political compass;
RIGHT WING
LEFT WING
AUTHORITARIAN 
LIBERTARIAN

Answer 9

right wing believe that being equal isn’t important some people are just better than others

left wing believe that being equal is important

authoritarian’s believe that people need to be told what to do and controlled

libertarian’s believe that people should be free to do what they like

Question 10

who would be against communism

Answer 10

ruling classes, Church, large majority of middle class.
because these people would lose money, property and a high social status. Church because communist’s believed that religion was the ‘Opium of the masses’- weren’t religious.

Question 11

who would be in favour of communism

Answer 11

proletarians (working class) because everyone would have a fair share of money. most working class people would benefit from this is because their lifestyle would improve for the better.

Question 12

who was Karl Marx

Answer 12

the writer of the ‘The Communists Manifesto’.

Question 13

how was Nazi Germany a totalitarian society

Answer 13

because Nazi’s controlled every aspect of life from education to newspapers . This stirred up racist hatred towards Jew’s by making them seem worse than they were by brainwashing people and using propaganda.

Question 14

what is militarism

Answer 14

a belief that a country should have strong armed forces.