1. Joseph Stalin
Man of Steel

2. 5 Year Plans Had several 5 Year Plans to Industrialize USSR
Purpose was to improve military and increase industry
Heavy industry increased by 4x from 1928 to 1937
“We are 50 – 100 years behind behind the advanced countries. We must make this distance in 1o years. Either we do it or we shall go under.”

3. 5 Year Plan

5. Collectivization
The forcible consolidation of individual peasant farms into large government owned farms
Led to economic & human disaster
(Ukrainian genocide, 6 million dead)

6. Gulag- Russian labor camp

8. Stalin’s Purges Purge- “to clean up”
Removed more than ½ of high ranking officers, and many other communist officials
Millions of Russians slaughtered

9. List of names that Stalin ordered to be killed

10. Stalin’s Accomplishments
Turned U.S.S.R into a super power
Helped Allies in WWII or the “ Great Patriotic War”

11. Big 3 – Churchill, Roosevelt, & Stalin
Stalin helped lead the Russians to victory in WWII