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SOVIET UNION
Major events that impacted their country between WWI and WWII.
Russia drops out of WWI in order to stop the revolution
Bolshevik Revolution
Communist
Purges and deportations to slave labor camps
-Discuss basic facts: alliance, total casualties, total cost, war goals, etc
192 billion
3rd highest cost
8 million to 11 million just from the war
27 million casualties
-Tell us about their leader(s) during WWII
Joseph Stalin
Dictator
Thought enemies should be sent to labor camps
Started the Cold War after WWII
Came to power after Lenin died
Lenin did not like Stalin, but he won the power struggle
-Discuss the impact of their Homefront and propaganda and what it was like in their country during the war
Posters, radio, newspaper
Moved east, germans were invading on the west
Collective farms
Gov. taking over farms
Millions of people who disagreed died
Children still attended school
Women participated
-Discuss major battle strategies
Operation Barbarossa
Trench Warfare
Roadblocks
Tank Raids
Artillery
-Discuss major battles that the country was involved in
Battle of Stalingrad
1 million Soviet’s died
920 thousand Germans died
Soviets only had 10 percent of the city when they held off Germany and pushed them east
Battle of Moscow
Germans had a long supply line and Germany couldn’t provide winter supplies
Russians were more prepared for the cold
Battle of Leningrad
Battle of Berlin
Soviets attack on German infantries
Hitler had committed suicide
-Discuss other people/generals from their country in WWII that had a major impact on the war
gEORGY Zhukov
Most successful russian general
Stalin demoted him because he was powerful
Vyacheslav Molotov
Foreign Minister
Helped a lot with the pac between Germany and Russia
In charge of collective farms
Ivan Konev
one of the most outstanding generals
Commander of the western front
Stalin planned to execute him
Nikita Khurschev
Plitical Commisioner of the war
After Stalins death, took control of the Soviet Union
-Discuss why they won or lost the war
-Discuss the impact WWII had on the country
Destroyed many big cities
- Became a hidden war power
Mar 8- Took notes
Strengthened the intelligence and secret service
Created a ‘Cult of Personality’
Painting themselves as godlike
Nationalization and Collectivization of the Soviet economy
Gov. taking farms and businesses away from individual people
Goal of equality
Industrialization of the Soviet economy
Five Year Plans
In 5 years they wanted to increase the production of the Soviet Union by so much percent
Policies led to famine in Ukraine
Less food
5-10 million died- considered a genocide
- Banned religion
Signed German- Soviet non aggression pact leading to the invasion of Poland
Also invaded Estoia, Latvia, Lithuania and Finland
Signed neutrality pact with Japan
Broke the pact one day after the bombing of Hiroshima
invaded by Germany
Stalin instituted his retreat and ‘scorched earth’ policies
Anything they couldn’t pack they destroyed so Germans couldn’t use it
- The Russian winter of 1941-42
FRANCE
Invaded by the German military
Within a month, they surrendered
Between WWI and WWII
Did everything the US did
Built a concrete barrier to keep Germany out
Germans went up through Belgium- made the wall useless
Anybody able to get out fled to GB
Free French Underground- Charles De Gaulle
Hitler is in control of France
There was a resistance
Vichy Gov’t- Marshall Petain (leader)
helped Germany
DDay
Capture France and take it back from Germany
- Within a year the war was over with Germany
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