Joseph Stalin
Leader Soviet Union
- he got into power he was appointed as general secretary under Lennen but when he died Stalin came to power
- he lost power when he died of a stroke
Background
- he was planning on being a priest and instead became a atheist and killed millions
- he loved westerns and Charley Chaplin
- call meetings at 2am
before WW2
- Nationalization - the government took over business
- Industrialization - they wanted to build more industry
- collectivization - they took away farms and made them bigger and government owned
- 5 year plans - was a industrialization plan that would improve output of food and industry
- great purges - killed anyone who could be a threat to his leadership
WW2
- non aggression pact - Germany and Soviet Union said they would not fight and they would trade with each other which helped both of them even though they still hated each other they still invaded Poland
- Germany breaking -
- Allied powers
- Leningrad, Moscow, Stalingrad
- Berlin
- Germany breaks the pact and in summer of 1941 he invades the soviet Union and has a very hard time stalin said to burn everything so that germany had nothing to take
- hitler thought if he could win Leningrad, Moscow, Stalingrad.
- the end of Berlin russia slowley push hitler back to berlin where hitler kills himself in 1945
- cold war starts in 1945 - 1991
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