Stalin

Question 0

First five year plan

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Extremely rapid industrialization (changed into a four year plan). Needed to advance to protect themselves from western imperialism and capitalism

Question 1

Socialism in one country

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Campaign for national unity through a united economic class; industrialized quickly and eliminated foreign involvement

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Forced collectivization

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Government had the right to raid agricultural villages of goods and people

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Dekulakization

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Killed/relocated ethnic minorities (kulaks), sent them to labor camps

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Second five year plan

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Not as successful as the first. Focused on heavy production like steel, and communications like railways.

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Molotov-Ribbentrop pact

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Treaty of non-aggression between Soviet Union and Germany–secretly divided up Eastern European counties to take over

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High Stalinism

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Period between 1945-1953 when Stalin could rule without fear of Nazis past WWII

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Comintern

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Established by Lenin in 1914 (Russian revolution) it was an international communist organization

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Cominform

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Restarted by Stalin in 1947 It was the first official forum of the international communist movement since the dissolution of the Comintern

Question 9

Battle of Stalingrad

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July 1942-feb 1943 soviets fought off German invasion. Important battle since the German forces never regained the initiative in the East and withdrew a vast military force from the West to replace their losses

Question 10

Yalta

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Feb 1945, big three (FDR Churchill Stalin) planned defeat and occupation of post war nazi Germany. Military would be demolished and land divided up.

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Potsdam

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July 17-Aug 2 1945 conference including Stalin, Churchill and Truman. Purpose was to administer punishment to Germans and establish post war order and treaty issues
*last meeting due to Cold War tensions

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KGB

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(Committee for state security) main soviet security/military agency from 1954-1991

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Iron curtain

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“Political, military, ideological barrier” that isolated the Soviet Union

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Central committee

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Designation for body of communist parties. Directed all party and govt activities between each party congress

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Leninism

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Marxist views as interpreted by Lenin: wanted to end capitalism and introduced socialism

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Show trial

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Open trials with foreign press invited that showcased Lenin’s brutal policies
AKA purge trials

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Big three

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Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Politburo

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Political bureau of the central committee of the communist party of the Soviet Union. Created 1917, was central policy making and government. Body of SU communist party

Question 19

Purge

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Political repression from 1934-1940 that included surveillance, imprisonment and execution of those who were suspicious.

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Gosplan

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The State Planning Committee, commonly known as Gosplan, was the agency responsible for central economic planning in the Soviet Union.