Area Of Study Two

Question 1

State what was the 5 year plan in the Soviet Union

Answer 1

The 5 year plan was
-collectivisation
-Industrialisation

Question 2

What were some motivations for the 5 year plan?

Answer 2

Stalin wanted to prove that communism was better than capitalism
Improve the quality of life in Soviet Russia
Industrialise the Soviet Union so it can become a world power and improve protection

Question 3

What were the first five years?

Answer 3

Between 1928-1933
Stalin wanted to increase productivity in factories and also increase the amount grains grown + % taken by the government
Collectivisation was designed for this.

Question 4

What was collectivisation?

Answer 4

Collectivisation occurred when Stalin made the peasant farms merge together to create one large community farm for everyone to contribute to and take care of

Question 5

What were some consequences of collectivisation?

Answer 5

Government took too much grains
Caused mass starvation like the holodomor
Many people resisted ( the ones who own the larger land)

Question 6

What was Dekulakistaion?

Answer 6

The removal of the final capitalist class called the kulaks Stalin wanted them gone.
This turned peasants against peasants

Question 7

How many Kulaks died during dekulakisation?

Answer 7

Estimated around 5- 10 million people were starved or executed

Question 8

How did some of the Kulaks resist against dekulakisation?

Answer 8

Committed around 300,000 acts of arson
Burning of crops
Killing of live stock
Destroying tools and barns

Question 9

What was the Holodomor?

Answer 9

A Mass starvation caused in Ukraine around 5-10 million people died from starvation
Around 1 million kids under 10 died from starvation

Question 10

How was the Holodomor caused?

Answer 10

When collectivisation was in place the government began to take more grains than what they actually needed leaving people to starve and cause mass starvations such as the Holodomor.

Question 11

What would Stalin do if factory targets weren’t met by the end of the deadline

Answer 11

The workers wages would be cut and the target would also increase
Became quantity over quality

Question 12

How long was the great purge

Answer 12

The great purge happened between 1934-1938

Question 13

Why did the Great Purge happen?

Answer 13

To remove any potential threats or rivals

Question 14

How many people got purged

Answer 14

Around 100,000 communist party members,
Between 1936-1938 650,000 people were shot
1 million were sent to gulags
2 million died in the gulags

Question 15

What were the gulags

Answer 15

A prison camp system to hold prisoners
Forced to work long hard hours doing physical labour hunger was experienced and constantly monitored by authorities

Question 16

How many children went to school in 1916?

Answer 16

Only 49% of 8-10 year olds went to school the rest didnt

Question 17

How many children went to school by 1927

Answer 17

Around 80% of 8-10 year olds went to school by then majority of illiteracy was gone by then

Question 18

What was the Komsomal who were they designed for

Answer 18

For children aged 14-28 years old
A youth organisation to promote communist ideology

Question 19

When was Dachau opened

Answer 19

March 22nd 1933
Was the first concentration camp built

Question 20

Who was Heinrich Himmler

Answer 20

He was the leader of the SS army
Involved in the destruction of the SA army (brown shirts)
Created the idea of concentration camps

Question 21

What did the SS army do?

Answer 21

Took over the German police systems, courts
Eliminated threats to the Nazi Reigme

Question 22

Who was Konrad Morgan

Answer 22

An SS judge
Investigated corruption within the SS
Also known as “Blood Hound” Judge

Question 23

Who was Rudolf Hoess

Answer 23

In charge of the Auschwitz death camps
Was a SS soldier
1943 lost his command and left Auschwitz

Question 24

What was given to the doctors of Auschwitz to cope with selection process

Answer 24

The doctors were given alcohol to cope with it

Question 25

What din Josef Mengele do?

Answer 25

He was a physician at Auschwitz loved to experiment on twins using inhuman methods
Trialled organ transplant, amputations and after he was done using those kids he would sent them straight to the gas chambers

Question 26

How many people could fit in one gas chamber at Auschwitz

Answer 26

Around 2,000 people could fit into on chamber, was the most efficient death camp at the time

Question 27

Why did Heinrich himmler make death camps?

Answer 27

Because he wanted a way where his SS soldiers don’t get psychologically get effected by it

Question 28

Who was Joseph Gobbels?

Answer 28

Was the minister of propaganda when Hitler became chancellor of germany

Question 29

What did Gobbels control propaganda wise

Answer 29

Newspaper
Magazine
Films
Radio
Children’s books
Music

Question 30

Why was the Radios called Gobbels Gob

Answer 30

Because he took control over all the radio stations
The radios were solely used for spreading propaganda through entertainment like music
Originally called the People’s Reciever but changed to Gobbels Gob

Question 31

What was Gobbels a fan of

Answer 31

He liked modern art which actually went against nazi ideology of following traditional values

Question 32

How was cinema controlled in Nazi Germany

Answer 32

Got Nazi messages spread through film, they were highly edited versions of reality that included aryans everywhere and a world that’s better without Jewish people or Gypsies around

Question 33

How many artworks did Hitler reject?

Answer 33

For the House of a German Art Hitler rejected all 800 artworks

Question 34

What artwork pieces were allowed in the House of Germany Arts?

Answer 34

Glorification of men being soldiers women being mothers
And aryans being everywhere

Question 35

How many artworks were seized for being offensive to Nazism

Answer 35

Around 700 art pieces were taken down for being offensive to the Nazi beliefs