Crisis+state+Mao+and+Hitler

 This basically discusses whether or not it is appropriate for the single-party leader to ascertain more power for security during a crisis state, and moreover, judge accordingly the level of crisis.

__**Mao**__ Crisis State:
 * This event is considered a crisis state in which normally democratic societies will accept dictatorial governments if they feel their country is being threathened by economic collapse, political revolution, or anarachy” ( 11).
 * **Origin/cause of crisis**
 * Need for a new socialist China (**political instabilitiy)**
 * Debts-after years of being at war, such as the revolution of 1911, as well as the war with Japan (**war and aftermath of war)**
 * Natural landmarks such as railways and roads destroyed (**economic)**
 * “Chronic food shortages” (**economic crisis)**
 * Agriculture and Industry were both backward (
 * The fact that China had many war debts made them also vulnerable to imperialist countries due to their need of war reparation money.
 * **(Failure)to Respond**
 * **China was indeed in a crisis state, previously supported with aid from the United States. Unfortunately the United States decided to stop supporting them, forcing Mao to befriend Stalin for his desparate ally for war reparations. In this crisis state, he did accept communism.**
 * **Great Leap Forward (Introducing communism)**
 * Divided people to live in large villages (communes) doing almost factory-like work in order to work collective and efficient farms.
 * Smaller factories than seen in USSR or US were set up to try to boost industry
 * **Failure:** in the end, the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution (a purging effort) in the direct outcome were bad, resulting in the deaths of over 20 million people, however, it is said that over time it did help progress China significantly in the agricultural and industrial aspect.
 * **Oppression**
 * **Mao and other memebers of the communist party were able to gain support unjustly through the corruption of the current KMT Chinese Government which was inefficient (351).**
 * **Corruption:** Were told that land would be divided according to that certain familie’s wishes in order to gain support.
 * 1) Downfall
 * 2) Let his country slip to communism and used corruption in order to force his people to believe they were voting for equality.
 * 3) Used propaganda to turn his followers against imperialists,

__**Hitler:**__ Crisis State:


 * **Origin/cause of crisis**
 * WWI had left Germany very broken and at disadvantage.
 * Treaty of Versailles- blamed Germany for war damage and held them accountable for paying off war debts.
 * Disarmament- Germany feels insecure as they are forced not to employ weapons, although neighboring countries adhere to no such rules
 * Hyperinflation- until controlled, all of Europe went through a period of hyperinflation after the war in which they experienced great turmoil.
 * **(Failure)to Respond**
 * Germany already felt isolated from the rest of Europe, although Weimar Germany was going through difficult times, Hitler took it from the wrong angle, and instead of trying to make allies, he took the other path of oppression and prepared his country for war once elected
 * Appeasement failed, and Hitler’s aggressive plans to expand caused a reaction from other European countries of hostility.
 * Appeasement failed, and Hitler’s aggressive plans to expand caused a reaction from other European countries of hostility.


 * **Oppression**
 * In 1933, Nazi party finally consolidated party in which the new Führer, Hitler, had most absolute control, and under Hitler was the Schutzstaffel, or secret police, which followed Hitler’s rule.
 * Tried to transform Germany into a racially pure community (Volkgemeinschaft). Minorities such as Jews were ostracized from the rest of society, in the heart of Nazi anti-Semitism.
 * Hitler emphasized very clear roles that women and children had, and these were strictly adhered to. Children even were involved in youth Nazi groups in hopes of turning them into Nazi ideologists, as well as bring out their hatred towards minorities such as Jews.
 * **Downfall**
 * This turned to violence in Kristallnacht, a public attack on Jews, and from then on Hitler expressed his plans of creating more Lebensraum and his foreign policy was not parallel to the beliefs of Germans who didn’t mean to go to such extremes.
 * In 1939, after signing a peace treaty, Germany fails to follow through and attacks Poland, starting World War II.

Similarities
 * Both were dealing with a country coming out of a major economic crisis (Had just lost a war)
 * Used oppression and unjust means of getting “elected” and coming to power
 * Both exaggerate enemy cases and used propaganda to win support.