Unit 8: Paper 2 — Authoritarian Rule
Topic 8.1: Why did authoritarian rule emerge? Questions
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Discuss the role of conflict in the emergence of authoritarian rule.
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Analyse cause and consequence in the emergence of authoritarian rule, using one example from your thematic study.
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Explain a relevant example of an economic crisis contributing to the emergence of authoritarian rule from your thematic study.
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Choose the policy that won the Chinese Communist Party deep loyalty from China's rural population during the civil war.
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Explain a relevant example of ideas or ideology contributing to the emergence of authoritarian rule from your thematic study.
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To what extent did economic crisis explain the emergence of authoritarian rule in the period after 1900?
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Evaluate the claim that a mobilised social base was the single most important factor in the emergence of authoritarian rule.
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Examine the role of ideology in converting crisis into concentrated political power.
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Analyse perspectives on the emergence of authoritarian rule, using one example from your thematic study.
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Explain a relevant example of conflict contributing to the emergence of authoritarian rule from your thematic study.
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Choose the date on which Mao Zedong declared the People's Republic of China, marking the Communist Party's final consolidation of power.
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Choose the four factors this thematic study identifies as combining to produce authoritarian rule.
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Choose the event that most directly caused Nazi Party support to surge from 2.6% of the vote in 1928 to 37.3% in July 1932.
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Choose the social group identified as the Nazi Party's key mass base, fearful of poverty and communist revolution.
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