Stalin Quiz (EL)

To rule by a small group of people

• Democracy
• Monarchy
• Oligarchy

Totalitarian

• powerful, controlling government
• weak, powerless government
• peaceful, democratic government

Fill in the blanks: Stalin decided to ________ his enemies

• join
• send money to
• purge
• scorn

Fill in the blanks: Due to taking away private farms and forcing people to work on large collective farms, almost 20 million people die due to _____________.

• plague
• covid 19
• famine
• poison

Who died that led to Joseph Stalin becoming leader of the USSR?

• Rasputin
• Czar Nicholas
• Vladimir Lenin
• Woodrow Wilson

What did Soviet propaganda do?

• encourage citizens to vote
• spread democracy
• fake statistics and exaggerate successes
• be totally honest about Stalin

Describe how Stalin was a dictator or a totalitarian ruler.

• The government owned and controlled all major industries.

• Political purges and repression

• Citizens were not allowed to express their opinions freely.

• State control of the economy

• Information was manipulated to maintain the regime's image.

• No Freedom of speech

• Media was heavily censored and controlled by the state.

• No freedom of press

• Many political opponents were executed or sent to labor camps.

• Use of propaganda

What was the Great Purge?

• Eliminate opposition - Stalin killed millions of people who were against him.

• A military campaign against Nazi Germany in World War II.
• A series of agricultural reforms in the Soviet Union during the 1920s.

What were the positive and negative results of Stalin's 5 year plans?

Groups:

(a) positive

,

(b) negative

• millions of Soviets died

• large farms produced more

• Made a lot more goods and resources

• made USSR an industrial power

• propaganda faked statistics

• many people starved to death.

• ​ (a)   is when the ​ (b)   made all ​ (c)   for businesses.

• Comunism
• government
• decisions