| A | B |
|---|
| War Communism | goal was to create a communist society where the community owned everything. Bolsheviks owned and controlled all |
| NEP | National Economic Policies |
| Totalitarianism | A government with complete control over all areas of human life. Opposition is outlawed (Stalin) |
| Collectivization | all private farms were taken from peasants and joined together to make collective farms to sell grain for new industrialized capital costs |
| Five Year Plan | In 1928, Stalin began a series of five year plan to industrialize the country |
| Great Purge | 1936 an overwhelming fear of government hit the people as Stalin removed all opposition to his regime through death or banishment, Millions of people simply disappeared |
| iron curtain | a metaphorical term used to describe the separation created by the Soviet Union and the rest of the world |
| Cold War | Having communism and capitalism competing for world power threatening the use of nuclear weapons (USSR vs USA) |
| The "Thaw" | Era of Khrushchev when he tried to DE- Stalinize the soviet union |
| hoarding | buying and keeping large quantities of goods at home |
| Glasnost | openess |
| perestroika | restructuring or rebuilding |
