1. Joseph Stalin Becomes leader of the Soviet Union in 1924
Lenin dies
Exiles Trotsky
Wants the S.U. to become an industrial power—ASAP!
Stalin is more Totalitarian than Lenin

2. Command economy Stalin gets rid of the N. E. P
Command economy Stalin gets rid of the N.E.P. The soviet government owns everything.
Secret police + censorship=people are so afraid they turn in friends and relatives.
Purges-Stalin gets rid of anyone who is a threat to his power or anyone who disobeys, this includes government officials, teachers, artists, generals in the army, tens of millions killed.

3. Great Purge ( )
Attempt by Stalin to eliminate political opposition
Leading members of the Bolshevik party were executed or sent to labor camps
Stalin purged prominent military officials
50% of military officers were purged
Historians estimate million people died during the Great Purge.

4. Gulag – Prison/Labor Camp
1,053,829 people died in the GULAG from 1934 to 1953, not counting those who died in labor colonies ( million-stats vary due to unreliable records keeping)
You too could be sent to a Gulag camp for crimes such as unexcused absences from work, petty theft, or anti-government jokes

5. 5 Year Plan (1928)
First Five-Year Plan=Fast Industrialization of Soviet Union
focuses on iron, steel, machine tools, and electricity
Called for 1115% increase in coal production, 200% increase in iron, and 335% in electric power
Posted worker production in factories
Workers who failed to meet production quotas were shot or imprisoned in the Gulag

6. 5 Year Plan (+) It does industrialize the Soviet Union.
But there are no products for the people to buy.
Any products produced were of poor quality.
Even though they industrialized most people were poor.

7. Collectivization & Cult of Personality
Collectivization-state run farms. Stalin forces farmers to give up their private farms and work on government farms.
Kills millions of peasants
Secures Soviet control of countryside
Cult of Personality Stalin is portrayed as the greatest leader in Soviet history.

8. My Favorite Stalin—Luck for the People

9. Similarities Differences
Fascism & Communism
Similarities Differences
Fascists accept social classes (Social Darwinism)
Communists want to eliminate classes
Both ruled by dictators
One Party Rule
State is Supreme
Denied individual rights
Not Democratic
Nationalists (fascism)
Internationalists (encourage spread of communism)

10. Emperor Hirohito

11. Japan
Tojo (Prime Minister)ran nation, but Hirohito (124th Emperor) was “figurehead” or leader without any real power.
Invaded Manchuria
Invaded China
Set out to build huge Japanese empire in Asia
Japan suffered during the depression from lack of natural resources
Date in Power: 1926
Political Party: Military
Type of Government: Militarism, uses military to achieve national goals

12. Meanwhile…In Turkey Kemal Ataturk
WESTERNIZATION
Wearing of the fez outlawed (1925).
Turkish state declared secular (1928).
Women received the right to vote and hold office (1934).