Holodmer

Question 1

Three things that lead up to WWI

Answer 1

1. Lack of Industry & Technology
   - Mostly farming economy – much poverty & poor living conditions
   2.dISCONTENT W/ cZARnICHOLAS ii
   vIEWSED AS A WEAK LEADER COUNDLT MANAGE
2. WWI and Rising Cost of bread/Goofs
3. mil russians taken from arms to serve in WWI causing food shortages

Question 2

1917- 1921

Answer 2

Russian Revoluation

Question 3

WHta happen in the Russian Revolation

Answer 3

Russian communists violently ovethrew the government and installed communism which created mass proganda united workers.
By 1921 communists took total control of russia and began transforming the empire

Question 4

1922

Answer 4

The Soviet Union

Question 5

The soviet union

Answer 5

Territores from eurpore to alsaks were under the control of communist Russa
They favored working class and cities
They looked down on peasantry and considered them inferior
They wanted to have all land food and good controlled by Bolsheviks

Question 6

Bolsheviks what were they?

Answer 6

leftist part who sezierd power and destroyed the tradition of czarist rule(the old leader)

Question 7

Later in 1922

Answer 7

Soviet Ukraine Known as the Breadbasket of Europe

Question 8

WHy were they known as the breadbasket of euprose

Answer 8

Because they were rich in fertile soil- they produced more than 1/2 of all grain in the svoit union
And they were rich in resources(coals iron and more)

Question 9

More of 1922 Soviet Ukraine

Answer 9

They absorbed it into the soviet union
In the beginning the Ukrainians initially enjoyed the sense of individuality and ownership under Lenin

Question 10

wHO WAS LENIN

Answer 10

Lenin was the first and founding head of government of soviet russia and of the svoiet union

Question 11

1921- 1928 (Short and explain it)

Answer 11

New economic Policy
Bolsheviks gave peasants private ownership to farms and stuff

Question 12

1923(Short and Explain)

Answer 12

Ukrainization
This is when the Ukrainians experienced period of religious, economic, and cultural revival due to lenient Soviet polices

Question 13

1927

Answer 13

Joseph Stalin

Question 14

1927 Joseph Stalin

Answer 14

Was the ruthless leader of the soviet union and took power after Lenin death
Hated Lenins economic and cultural polices and tried to reverse them
Saw peasents as weeks dn a threat to his power due to the size of their class
Wanted to exploit peasents for agricultural purposes and elimate them

Question 15

Kulaks

Answer 15

They were class of wealthy landowners in Ukraine
They were viewed as a threat to Soviets because they had private land
Became scape goats for the soviet union

Question 16

1928-1937

Answer 16

Five year plans

Question 17

Five Year Plans

Answer 17

Stalins plan was a a serios of soviet polices to rapidly modernize, milizatze and indsutrlize to become world power
Controlled all industry and agricultues (the soviet union controlled them)
Built factories mills and power plants
Sent enimes to the gulags(work camps) whichr results 8-17 million people being killed
They were called enimines of the state

Question 18

1928-1937 Collectivization

Answer 18

This was a soviet policu to elimiate indivdual alnd and labor which forced farmers and peasants into giant collective farms which caused a famine

Question 19

Motives behidn the Holodomar- Stalins forced famine

Answer 19

1. Complete control of valuable land and resources in Ukraine
   2.Fear of being considered weak and vulnerable by world powers
2. Showcase of ethnic and racial superiority of the soviets
3. Annihilation of anyone resisting soviet policies in Ukraine

Question 20

Death by starvation 1932-1933 The Holodomor

Answer 20

Man Made froced famine by stalin and Soviet union
Imposed high and strict grain quotas on Ukr. famrmers
Confiscated all grains/foods
Resulted in 7-10 million Ukr. starved to death(mostly peasants)
Ate leaves , dogs and cats, frogs, mice and bired and some resorted to cannibalism and ate their children
25,000 per day

Question 21

Evidence of gencoide
1

Answer 21

Law of 5 Grain stalks
This law declared all food properly of the USSR- SEEVERE OENALITES