Rise of Stalin and the Great Depression

By Amy C Gilstrap
Last updated almost 4 years ago
37 Questions
1.

1920's Slang (huffenglish.com)
Draw a picture or write a quick story about your plans for Christmas break using 5 20s slang terms :) If you draw a pick make sure to use the terms.

2.

Click the types of socialist reforms European governments enacted

3.

Why did European leaders want to avoid communism?

4.

Which country was stronger going into WWII?

5.

What is a stock?

6.

Find 2 pictures of news paper headlines for Black Tuesday.

7.

Find 2 pictures of Americans during the Great Depression.

8.

What is a tariff?

9.

What was the New Deal?

10.

How does government rasie money to create new programs like those from the New Deal?

11.

The picture to the right is romaniticized picture of Lenin. Find 1 piece of Soviet propaganda with Lenin in it.

12.

Why did he promise Peace, Land and Bread?

13.

During the Russian Civil War Lenin introduced "War Communism" - the government could take whatever they needed from any person or business in order to fight the war. Draw a picture of government officals taking a person's property to be used in war. Label your picture.

14.

What did the NEP allow people to do?

15.

The NEP helped the Russian economy improve. Why do you think it was successful?

16.

How did Stalin come to power after Lenin died?

17.

This guy's name was Ioseb Besarionis dzе Jughashvili, but you know him as Joseph Stalin. Why did he change his name? (your opinion not Google's)

18.

How many people were killed (approximately) during Stalin's purges?

19.

What were Soviet labor camps called?

20.

Who could be sent to the gulags?

21.

Describe life in the gulag. Include a picture of the gulags

22.

Why did the government use censorship?

23.

Why did the government use propaganda?

24.

Find one piece of Soviet Proapaganda and explain what it is saying.

25.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bld0a17ted4
Which students went to school past 8th grade?

26.

Tell me 1 thing you think would be good about the Soviet school system.

27.

Tell me one thing you would not have liked about the Soviet schoool system.

28.

What do you think about students being trained in military preparedness in school?

29.

What is one thing that is similar to US schools?

30.

Look up the phrase "Cult of Personality". Tell me what it means in your own words.

31.

Why did Stalin allow churches to be attacked?

32.

What are quotas?

33.

What happened when businesses did not meet the quotas set by the state?

34.

Find a picture showing Soviet collective farms.

35.

What led to famine in the Ukraine during Stalin's rule?

36.

What happened to people who were caught with illegal food?

37.

Find an example of Anti-Communist propaganda.