Unit 4 Review

Rapid industrialization
Discontent over foreign entanglements while domestic issues went unsolved (Russo-Japanese War loss)
1905 Bloody Sunday --> Dumas
WWI -- more foreign entanglements
March Revolution, October Revolution

New Economic Policy (NEP) - transitional economic plan to rebuild SU by Lenin
Five-Year Plans - focus on industry and agriculture (Stalin)
Gulags (secret police)
De-Stalinization - Khrushchev gives the Cult of Personality speech and begins lessening the gov't control
Brezhnev increases control but not as much as Stalin
Gorbachev - perestroika (private land ownership) and glasnost (gov't transparency) -> beginning of the end of the SU

Containment of communism
Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) -- arms race, space race
SALT I and II - reducing armaments
Cuban Missile Crisis (event related to containment)
Satellite states - Soviet control over Eastern and Central European nations (i.e., Poland, Albania, Hungary)
Solidarity Movement - 1980 Polish workers in the Lenin shipyard unionize which was illegal under Soviet influence.
Proxy wars are fought around the world (Korean War, Vietnam War, Afghanistan, independence movements in Africa)

Exploring the Unit

Enduring understandings, essential questions, and a list of terms are on the unit introduction page. Link

Sort the terms listed on the unit intro page into words you "know," "think you know," and "don't know."
Study the terms on Quizlet. Start with the "don't know" words.
Practice sorting the terms and names on Quizlet by the essential question and enduring understandings. Use two or three of the terms to formulate a response to the question or proof of the enduring understanding.

Matching Trios - Unit 4 Russian Revolution - TEMP

Be able to identify each term (or name)
Explain the significance of the term as it relates to an enduring understanding and an essential question (three sigs for each EQ and EU).

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