Monday watched the World Wars
Tuesday: Finished watching the World Wars
Wednesday: Soviet Union presentation
Soviet Union In WWII
Joseph Stalin
- After WWI Russia became Communist and becomes the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- Purges and deportation to slave labor camps in Siberia called Gulags
- created the "cult of personality"
- Nationalization and collectivization of the Soviet economy
- Five year Plan
- Policies led to famine in Ukraine
Signed the non aggression pact
Invaded Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Finland in 1939
Operation Barbarossa
- largest land invasion in world History
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