1. Events and Ideas 2 Soviet Satellite States
World History
Unit 8

2. Essential Questions
Analyze the challenges facing the Soviet Satellite (buffer) states during the Cold War.
What challenges did they face?
What did they do to challenge the Soviet Unions control over their country?
Were any of them successful? Why or why not?

3. Recovery by the Soviet’s
The Soviets were devastated by WWII.
Their focus became heavy industry.
Capital (cash) was used to buy machinery for industry.
Soviet workers got little in return for their hard labor.
Soviets devastated by WWII.
Focus was on heavy industry.
Capital (cash) was used to buy machinery for industry.
Soviet worker got little in return for their hard labor.
Soviet soldiers move through the city of Stalingrad in WWII.

4. Recovery by the Soviet’s
The Soviets were devastated by WWII.
Their focus became heavy industry.
Capital (cash) was used to buy machinery for industry.
Soviet workers got little in return for their hard labor.
Soviets devastated by WWII.
Focus was on heavy industry.
Capital (cash) was used to buy machinery for industry.
Soviet worker got little in return for their hard labor.
Soviet soldiers move through the city of Stalingrad in WWII.

5. Reign of Stalin
Victory Parade in Moscow, 1945.
By 1950, Russian industry produced 40% more than before WWII.
Heavy industry increased.
Consumer goods and housing were extremely poor.
Average Russian family lived in a one room apartment.
By 1950, Russian industry produced 40% more than before WWII.
Heavy industry increased.
Consumer goods and housing were extremely poor.
Average Russian family lived in a one room apartment.

6. Reign of Stalin
Victory Parade in Moscow, 1945.
By 1950, Russian industry produced 40% more than before WWII.
Heavy industry increased.
Consumer goods and housing were extremely poor.
Average Russian family lived in a one room apartment.
By 1950, Russian industry produced 40% more than before WWII.
Heavy industry increased.
Consumer goods and housing were extremely poor.
Average Russian family lived in a one room apartment.

7. Khrushchev on the right, Castro on the left. United Nations, 1960.
The Khrushchev Era
Khrushchev replaced Stalin in 1953.
He placed more emphasis on consumer goods to satisfy the Soviet people.
Military spending and poor agricultural policies led to his downfall.
Production growth:
13% in 1953
7.5% in 1964.
Khrushchev on the right, Castro on the left. United Nations, 1960.
Khrushchev replaced Stalin in 1953.
Emphasis on consumer goods to satisfy the Soviet People.
Military spending and poor agricultural policies led to his downfall.
Production growth:
13% in 1953
7.5% in 1964.

8. Khrushchev on the right, Castro on the left. United Nations, 1960.
The Khrushchev Era
Khrushchev replaced Stalin in 1953.
He placed more emphasis on consumer goods to satisfy the Soviet people.
Military spending and poor agricultural policies led to his downfall.
Production growth:
13% in 1953
7.5% in 1964.
Khrushchev on the right, Castro on the left. United Nations, 1960.
Khrushchev replaced Stalin in 1953.
Emphasis on consumer goods to satisfy the Soviet People.
Military spending and poor agricultural policies led to his downfall.
Production growth:
13% in 1953
7.5% in 1964.

9. Behind the Iron Curtain
Iron Curtain in West Germany. Border starts at black, red and yellow marker.
Satellite states were forced to institute 5 year economic plans.
Focus was on heavy industry.
Agriculture was collectivized.
All non-communist political parties were eliminated.
Satellite states were forced to institute 5 year economic plans.
Focus on heavy industry.
Agriculture was collectivized.
All non-communist political parties were eliminated.

10. Behind the Iron Curtain
Iron Curtain in West Germany. Border starts at black, red and yellow marker.
Satellite states were forced to institute 5 year economic plans.
Focus was on heavy industry.
Agriculture was collectivized.
All non-communist political parties were eliminated.
Satellite states were forced to institute 5 year economic plans.
Focus on heavy industry.
Agriculture was collectivized.
All non-communist political parties were eliminated.

11. Border between East Germany and Western Germany.
Friends at the barricade, “Do not cross!” signs…Guard tower straight ahead.
Me (Mrs. DeVault) standing to the left of the first picture in “East Germany” (barely!)behind the Iron Curtain

12. Poland
Waiting in line to buy toilet paper, a typical view in Poland in 1950s & 1960s.
Poland was forced to become a Satellite State (Buffer State) after WWII
Protests erupted in Poland by 1956.
Their economy is low and they have no freedom
Polish Communist Party adopted reforms in 1956.
To avoid Soviet invasion, Poland promised to remain loyal to Warsaw Pact.

13. Poland
Waiting in line to buy toilet paper, a typical view in Poland in 1950s & 1960s.
Poland was forced to become a Satellite State (Buffer State) after WWII
Protests erupted in Poland by 1956.
Their economy is low and they have no freedom
Polish Communist Party adopted reforms in 1956.
To avoid Soviet invasion, Poland promised to remain loyal to Warsaw Pact.

14. The Hungarian Freedom Fighter – Time Magazine’s Man of the Year
Hungary
Hungarian Communists followed Poland’s lead.
Imre Nagy leads a freedom movement and declared Hungary free and independent in 1956.
The Soviets attacked Hungarian capital of Budapest.
Nagy is seized and executed.
The Hungarian Freedom Fighter – Time Magazine’s Man of the Year

15. The Hungarian Freedom Fighter – Time Magazine’s Man of the Year
Hungary
Hungarian Communists followed Poland’s lead.
Imre Nagy leads a freedom movement and declared Hungary free and independent in 1956.
The Soviets attacked Hungarian capital of Budapest.
Nagy is seized and executed.
The Hungarian Freedom Fighter – Time Magazine’s Man of the Year

16. Czechoslovakia Czech leader Alexander Dubcek attempts reforms in 1968.
They ask for freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
They also want freedom to travel to other countries
The Soviet Army invaded in August of 1968 and crushed the “revolt.”
Alexander Dubcek
Alexander Dubcek attempts reforms in 1968.
Freedom of speech and press.
Freedom to travel abroad.
Soviet Army invaded in August of 1968 and crushed the “revolt.”
Prague, 1968

17. Czechoslovakia Czech leader Alexander Dubcek attempts reforms in 1968.
They ask for freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
They also want freedom to travel to other countries
The Soviet Army invaded in August of 1968 and crushed the “revolt.”
Alexander Dubcek
Alexander Dubcek attempts reforms in 1968.
Freedom of speech and press.
Freedom to travel abroad.
Soviet Army invaded in August of 1968 and crushed the “revolt.”
Prague, 1968

18. Essential Questions
Analyze the challenges facing the Soviet Satellite (buffer) states during the Cold War.
What challenges did they face?
What did they do to challenge the Soviet Unions control over their country?
Were any of them successful? Why or why not?