Chapter 12:3. Russia = U.S.S.R. = Soviet Union In 1917, Czar Nicholas II is overthrown and Russia...

THE SOVIET UNIONChapter 12:3

WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT???

Russia = U.S.S.R. = Soviet Union

REVOLUTION!

In 1917, Czar Nicholas II is overthrown and Russia becomes a communist nation.

JOSEPH STALIN

Ruled the Soviet Union during WWII

The government controlled everything– what to build, what to make in factories, what to grow on farms

Used secret police

COLLECTIVE FARMS

Government-owned and employed large numbers of workers

Food was distributed by the government

Often, people didn’t have enough to feed their families

AFTER WORLD WAR II….

THE COLD WAR!

THE COLD WAR

WEST: NATO (U.S. and Western Europe)

Constitutional monarchies and democracies

FREE

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1949)

United States

Belgium

Britain

Canada

Denmark

France

Iceland

Italy

Luxemburg

Netherlands

Norway

Portugal

1952: Greece & Turkey

1955: West Germany

1983: Spain

THE COLD WAR

EAST: Warsaw Pact (U.S.S.R. and Eastern European countries)

Communist puppet governments

NOT FREE!!!

Warsaw Pact (1955)

} U. S. S. R.

} Albania

} Bulgaria

} Czechoslovakia

} East Germany

} Hungary

} Poland

} Rumania

SUPER POWER

The U.S.S.R. controlled Eastern Europe through puppet governments.

They could vote, but they only had ONE party to choose from. This is called a one party system.