Stalin's+Five+Year+Plan

Allan Tuquero How would Stalin's Five Year Plans affect Russia and eventually win World War Two?

Background
 * Lenin set-up a communist regime and overthrow the Tsar of Russia
 * To fix the economy he enacts War Communism, where the State forcibly takes food from farms
 * When that didn't work, Lenin enacts his New Economic Policy, a capitalistic type economy
 * Lenin later died of health problems
 * Stalin gained power and killed all opposition
 * Stalin made Russia more communist
 * Wanted to industrialize Russia to catch up to Western Standards

1st, 2nd, and 3rd Five Year Plans Lasting Affects
 * First year plan involved collectivization to collect food from farmers
 * Wanted to improve efficiency
 * Sent Kulaks to die
 * Caused famine in Russia
 * Exported food to get advanced industrial equipment
 * Second Five Year plan improved infrastructure within Russia
 * Built railroads and telegraph lines
 * Able to catch up to Germany
 * Third Five Year Plan involved production of military hardware
 * Military hardware helped defeat Germans in World War II
 * Living standards in Soviet Russia severely decreased
 * Russia continued to produce Military hardware
 * Communist regime fully in power