1944
- Hungary is taken over by Germany and jews are taken to auschwitz to be murdered
1945
- hilter defeated
- war ends
- holocaust is over and death camps are emptied
- survivors placed in displaced person camps
1947
- united nations establishes jewish homeland in british controlled Palestine becomes state of israel
Science experiment
- they tested jews for many experiments in the camps
Russia/Soviet Union/USSR
Russia dropped out of WW I due to the Bolshevik Revolution-
Economically, it was in terrible shape
Vladimir Ulyanov(Lenin)
Lenin emerged as the leader of the communists.
Lenin was a big Marxist supporter- marx was the founder of communism
-Marx never outlined how exactly to reach a classless society so Lenin and the government took control of the economy and farms with a promise to eventually give it back to the peasants.
Lenin organized the country into a federation of republics
- The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Lenin died in 1924
Power struggled ensued between Leon Trotsky and Josef Stalin. trotsky was killed by stalin's people
Stalin would win.
Josef Stalin
Wanted to focus on building up the Soviet Union’s economy- it was terrible
Eliminated political opponents in great purges(800,000)
Wanted nationalization and collectivization of the economy
-gov’t took control of industry(nationalization)
-abolished private ownership(upset Kulaks)
-forced peasants to merge their land into large collective
farms(collectivization)
The Kulaks resisted and Stalin used the secret police to kill them
Stalin admitted that at least 10 million people died due to collectivization and famine
Five Year Plans
-Stalin’s idea of economic growth for industry and
agriculture
-Goals were to be met in a five year time frame
-Wasn’t until the third 5 Year Plan did the economy start
to improve
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