Krushchev - Aggriculture & industry

Question 1

What were Agrocities?

Answer 1

Huge collective farms

Question 2

What was the Virgin land scheme?

Specific evidence

Answer 2

Khrushchev wanted to cultivate settlements in Siberia and Ukraine which hadn’t been farmed before

By 1956, 36 million hectares of virgin land had been farmed

Question 3

How many ministries were abolished in Moscow?
What else happened to the USSR?
Why Khrushchev want to decentralise

Answer 3

60

USSR was divided into 105 economic regions - each region had its own economic council high set its own targets

Systems put in place under Stalin proved ineffective because ministers in the city would set different targets for industrial growth

Question 4

What happened in 1958?

Answer 4

Brussels World Fair - Khrushchev stuns the world with soviet technologic advancements

Question 5

What was launched in 1958?

Answer 5

Sputnik - first artificial satellite

Question 6

What happened in 1961?

Answer 6

Gagarin - first human to enter space