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Totalitarianism, Fascism, and Nazism

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Term: 1st Term

Week: 10

Class: Senior Secondary School 1

Age: 15 years

Duration: 40 minutes of 2 periods each

Date:       

Subject:      Government

Topic:-       Totalitarianism, Fascism and Nazism

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to

  1. Define Totalitarianism, Fascism and Nazism
  2. Outline the features of Totalitarianism, Fascism and Nazism INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNIQUES: Identification, explanation, questions and answers, demonstration, videos from source

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS: Videos, loud speaker, textbook, pictures

INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES

PERIOD 1-2

PRESENTATION

TEACHER’S ACTIVITY

STUDENT’S ACTIVITY

STEP 1

INTRODUCTION

The teacher reviews the previous lesson on capitalism

Students pay attention

STEP 2

EXPLANATION

He defines Totalitarianism, Fascism and Nazism

 

Students pay attention and participates

STEP 3

DEMONSTRATION

He outlines the features of Totalitarianism, Fascism and Nazism

Students pay attention and participate

STEP 4

NOTE TAKING

The teacher writes a summarized note on the board

The students copy the note in their books

 

NOTE

TOTALITARIANISM, FASCISM AND NAZISM

TOTALITARIANISM

Totalitarianism may be defined as a form of government in which one supreme authority controls everything and where there is no opposition, Nazist Germany, Benito Mussolini-Fascist Italy in 1922 and former USSR under Joseph Stalin

 

 

FEATURES OF TOTALITARIANISM

  1. Supreme authority that controls everything
  2. Absence of all forms of opposition
  3. State control of mass media
  4. The use of force and terror in enteric the will of the state and its rulers
  5. Absence of the rule of law

 

FASCISM

Fascism may be defined as the philosophy, principle and organization of the aggressive nationalist and anti-communist dictatorship under Benito Mussolini, Italy in 1922.

 

FEATURES OF FASCISM

  1. Fascism encourages aggressive nationalism
  1. It is an anti-communist movement
  1. Fascism condemns both capitalism and socialism
  1. It glorifies war which according to fascists will lead eventually to peace
  1. It rejects God’s law and religion in its entirety

 

NAZISM

Nazism as a political ideology belief in idealism and the superiority of the German race rather than an individual

Nazism was practiced by Adolf Hitler in 1933 to 1945 in Germany

 

FEATURES OF NAZISM

  1. The leader is always right and he controls all power of government
  1. There is the existence of only one political party e.g. the Nazist political party
  1. Government controls the economy centrally
  1. Opposition is not allowed
  1. Government owns and controls mass media

 

EVALUATION:    1. Define

a. Totalitarianism

b. Fascism

c. Nazism

2. Outline three features of

a. Totalitarianism

b. Fascism

c.Nazism

CLASSWORK: As in evaluation

CONCLUSION: The teacher commends the students positively