Chapter 29

This was Lenin's New Economic Policy which tried to revamp the Russian economy. It promoted limited capitalism which was against communist teachings but still helped the economy grow to an extent.

Mussolini was the influencial dictaor during world war II. He bagan his career as a black shirt which beat up and killed socialists. He legally gained power by being appointed by the King and he eventually made the king step down.

After Lenin dies, there is a brief period where the communist party has no successor. Stalin emerges over Trotsky as the new leader through his effective public organization and his control over the army.

Stalin's five year plan was to accelerate the Russian economy so that it could catch up to western societies. It called for industry to grow by 500 percent and agriculture by 250 percent.

This was Stalin's plan of bringing all the peasants together to farm the land. This was very similar to serfdom and the abuse of the jews in Germany. The Kulaks were mainly targets and millions of Ukraines died during the experiment.

As the Ukraine failed to supply Russia with the goods they needed, so Russia began to not send them food. The famine in the Ukraine was so great that millions of people died.

The murder of Kirov was most likely due to Stalin's wishes but never the less it let him start a rampage of attacks. He killed off almost every single person in his party and replaced them with new people.

The German invasion of Poland was the final straw for straw for the Allies. France and Great Britain both declared war after this event.

This was one of the first tries Germany had at challenging the Treaty of Versailles. They invaded the Sudetenland and France and gReat Britain appeased them because they did not want to risk war.

in 1941, Germany invades Russia despite their neutrality and provokes Russia into a war and a double front for Germany. Also in the same year, the US join the war after the bombing at Pearl Harbor.