Table of Contents – RussiaDate Title Lesson #

12/3 Europe Review 27

**RUSSIA (EURASIA) UNIT**

12/8 Cover Page and Map 28

12/9 Cut-Away Boxes 29

12/10 Human-Environment Interaction 30

12/16 Life Under Communism 31

12/18 Soviet Union - Economics 32

Soviet Union - Economics

1922-1991

Economics

Background

- Economic System = Command Economy

- Main Economic Policy = Rapid Industrialization

1. Command Economy

- Government controls all businesses

- Government takes all land

- Equal pay crushes incentive to work hard

- Unemployment low Government provides people with jobs

Clip Questions

Effects of Communism Clip Questions

A. What is Stalin’s 5 year plan?

B. How did it turn out?

2. Massive Cold War Spending

- Built up military Arms Race

- Spent money on wars in Vietnam, North Korea, Afghanistan

- Space Race

3. Collective Farming

- Soviet government kicks farmers off their land

- Sets up huge government-run farms Collectivization

Project Intro

• 2 sections – Life during Communism (Historical)– Life after Communism (Modern)

• Today Economic during Communism– Product due tomorrow

• Friday Social and Political during Communism– Another product due Monday 1/5

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Help

• Write the following at the top of your project directions…

Website www.orso2ndperiod.wikispaces.com

Email braden.orso@cfisd.net

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• Today Complete your ECONOMIC HISTORICAL product

– Do the Acrostic Poem or the Poster.

• This portion of the project is due tomorrow.

• You can do it anyway you want:– In your notebook– On a piece of computer paper– As a power point (do your rough draft today and email it to

me when you are finished)– Make your own wiki (go to wikispaces.com)

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