Aims and results of policies

Economic self-sufficiency — producing everything at home to avoid relying on imports, especially valuable in wartime.

To make Germany self-sufficient (autarky) and rearmed, ready for war. Run by Goering; autarky was never fully achieved.

Centralised plans from 1928 setting industrial targets. They drove rapid growth in heavy industry but neglected quality and consumer goods.

Forcing peasants off private farms onto large state-run collective farms so the state controls food output.

A man-made famine in Ukraine caused by Stalin's forced collectivisation and grain seizures; millions died.

Mao's drive to rapidly industrialise China; targets were faked and it caused a catastrophic famine with tens of millions of deaths.

Judge whether a regime's stated aims (autarky, modernisation, control) were actually achieved, weighing successes against the human cost.

Both aimed at state control of food. Soviet collectivisation caused the Holodomor (1932-33); the Great Leap Forward caused an even larger famine. Both: aim met, result catastrophic.

Building a one-party state, centralising power, eliminating rivals (e.g. Hitler's Enabling Act 1933), and controlling courts, media and unions.

The topic requires two authoritarian states each from a DIFFERENT IB region (e.g. USSR=Europe, Mao's China=Asia) to access full markbands.

Thematically — run each theme (e.g. industrialisation, agriculture) across BOTH states with evidence, then judge, rather than narrating each state separately.

Castro's Cuba (the Americas) — after 1959 he removed rivals and built a one-party state, useful for a different-region pairing.

Teaching people to accept a set of beliefs uncritically, especially through schools and youth movements.

Building a heroic, almost god-like public image of the leader so people feel devotion and loyalty to him.

The official Soviet art style — heroic, optimistic images of workers, peasants and Stalin designed to 'serve the people'.

The Nazi youth movement (with the League of German Girls) that drilled loyalty, racial ideas and fitness into young Germans.

Soviet youth organisations that trained children and teenagers in communist values and loyalty to the state.

An agreement between Nazi Germany and the Catholic Church; the Nazis soon broke its spirit and harassed the clergy.

The USSR's policy of promoting atheism — closing churches, persecuting priests and discouraging religion.

A Nazi exhibition mocking modern art as un-German, used to justify banning artists who didn't fit Nazi taste.

A Nazi leisure programme giving workers cheap holidays and trips — buying loyalty while controlling free time.

Castro's campaign sending young 'brigadistas' to teach reading across the island — spreading revolutionary loyalty too.

Aim: remake people into a loyal 'new person'. Result: broad outward conformity, but inner belief and the churches often survived.

Use two authoritarian states from two DIFFERENT regions (e.g. Germany/Europe + China/Asia), and compare theme by theme.

A regime that tries to control every part of life — politics, economy, family and belief — leaving no private space. An ideal aimed at, not always fully achieved.

Government policy encouraging women to have more children to grow the population (e.g. marriage loans, medals, banning contraception).

When ordinary people go along with a regime for safety or benefit without truly believing in it — evidence that obedience is not the same as total control.

Push women OUT of work and back to the home — 'Kinder, Küche, Kirche' (children, kitchen, church) — with marriage loans and medals for large families (pronatalism).

MOBILISE women into factories, farms and professions, supported by childcare and literacy drives, because the planned economy needed their labour.

Opposite: Nazi Germany pushed women home (racial/traditionalist ideology); the USSR pushed them into work (class/modernising ideology).

Nazi racial laws that stripped Jews of German citizenship and banned marriage between Jews and non-Jews — escalating toward the Holocaust.

By persecution and mass deportation — whole peoples (e.g. Crimean Tatars, Chechens) were forcibly moved to Central Asia during WWII.

Promoted that 'women hold up half the sky' and pulled women into collective labour and Party work — closer to the Soviet model than the Nazi one.

The argument over how total totalitarian rule really was. Churches, families, black markets and private belief survived, so control was vast but never complete.

The rubric requires examples from two different IB regions (Europe; Africa & the Middle East; the Americas; Asia & Oceania) — e.g. Nazi Germany (Europe) + Mao's China (Asia).

A weighed judgement: balance the scope of control against its limits and reach a supported conclusion — not a list or narrative.