SOS- Leadership (dictatorship blah blah)

Question 1

What is monarchy

Answer 1

a leader who inherits leadership and power

Question 2

what is a democracy

Answer 2

a system of government which allows the ordinary people of a society to have a say in how they are to be governed

Question 3

what is a dictatorship

Answer 3

a type of government in which an individual leader or a ruling group hold absolute power

Question 4

what is a theocracy

Answer 4

a type of government in which a religious leader has supreme authority

Question 5

what is a anarchy

Answer 5

when their is no leader or government

Question 6

what is divine right

Answer 6

when people thing the right to rule has been given to them by God

Question 7

summary of tsar Nicholas the second

Answer 7

1. He was the last absolute monarch of Russia.
2. His heir was his son Alexi
3. There was opposition to the autocratic rule (rule by one) and he had to give up some power. Parliament (duma) was formed
4. Russian revolution occurred in 1917- Nicholas abdicated- Russia withdrew from the war.
5. Nicholas and family were assassinated in 1918

Question 8

what is a constitutional monarch

Answer 8

A constitution is a set of laws made in a parliament. A constitutional monarch oversees a parliament they dont have absolute power.

Question 9

What is a personality cult.

Answer 9

Personality cults are a useful way for dictators to come into power. It is when a person is idolized and seen as a god like figure. This is established by statues, poems, songs, posters and teaching young children.

Question 10

What is communism

Answer 10

It is a belief of a society without different social classes, in which methods of production are owned and controlled by all its members. Everyone works as much as they can and gets paid what they need.

Question 11

Who started the idea of communism

Answer 11

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

Question 12

who was the first communist leader in russia

Answer 12

Vladimer Lenin who established secret police and labour camps

Question 13

who took over after vladimer lenin

Answer 13

Joseph Stalin in 1924-1953
1. all private farms were collectivized- state farms
2. Purges- erased opponents
3. Started industrial programmes
4. Labor camps for opponents
5. strong personality cult

Question 14

What is a purge

Answer 14

To get rid of what is impure or undesirable

Question 15

what is propaganda

Answer 15

Biased or misleading information used to promote a political cause or point of view

Question 16

Democracy means

Answer 16

Rule of the people. Started in ancient greece. Demos=people. kratos=rule

Question 17

what are the 2 forms of democracy

Answer 17

Direct democracy= involves the public directly in making decisions
Representative democracy= the public choosing representatives who take these decisions on their behalf

Question 18

how would they vote for things in ancient athens

Answer 18

1. You had to be male, free born ( not a slave), over 20, and descended from athenian parents.
2. AT least 6000 people would attend the assemblies
3. There was a lottery system so every year 50 men would be chosen by lottery to from a council to help keep the assemblies more organised
4. They would vote on ostrakons (broken pottery) as to who would be voted out, they would have to leave for 10 years.

Question 19

When was the united nations formed

Answer 19

1945
The universal declaration of human rights- 1948. 30 human rights

Question 20

What is universal suffrage

Answer 20

The right to vote in a political election

Question 21

When did nz give women the right to vote

Answer 21

1893

Question 22

Right to vote in britain

Answer 22

Was given in 1918
Violence was used to get the point across
Suffragetes were seen quite poorly

Question 23

What is a safeguard

Answer 23

a law rule or something that is done to protect someone or something from harm or damage eg. ostracism in ancient Greece (being able to kick people out)