 The first stage of Gorbachev's perestroika was "uskoreniye" ("acceleration"), a term he used regularly in the first two years of his leadership.The Soviet Union was behind the United States in many areas of production, but Gorbachev claimed that it would accelerate industrial output to match that of the U.S. by 2000.The Five Year Plan of 1985–90 was targeted to expand machine building by 50 to 100%.