1. RISE OF STALIN

2. ESSENTIAL QUESTION
How did Stalin take power in Soviet Russia?

3. DEATH OF LENIN
Leader of Bolshevik (communist) Revolution dies shortly after taking power.

4. POWER STRUGGLE
Stalin and Trotsky both contend to become new leader of Soviet Russia.

5. GENERAL SECRETARY
Stalin gains power to control the Communist Party in Russia.

6. EXILE Trotsky ordered out of Soviet Russia.
Later killed in Mexico by Stalin’s agents.

7. ESSENTIAL QUESTION
What did Stalin do while in power?

8. FIVE YEAR PLAN
Stalin’s ideas to make Soviet Russia into a major world power.

9. MILITARIZATION
Make Soviet Russia into world’s strongest army.

10. NATIONALIZATION
All industries under government control.

11. COLLECTIVIZATION
All farms placed under government control.

12. SCIENTIFIC SUPREMACY
Soviets would be the most technologically advanced.

13. SOCIALIST REALISM
All works or art designed to promote communism to Russian people.

14. COMINTERN
Plan to make other nations communist.

15. SOVIET UNION
Fourteen neighboring nations of Russia are taken over, become Soviet Union.

16. CENTRALIZATION
All 15 of the Soviet Republics were controlled by Stalin in Moscow.

17. ESSENTIAL QUESTION
How did Stalin keep control of the people?

18. KGB Secret Police of Soviet Union.
Could search, seize property and arrest citizens without cause.

19. PURGES
Stalin orders millions of his enemies to death.

20. GULAGS
Millions of Stalin’s enemies forced into prison labor camps.