Monday and Tuesday:
Wold wars videos
Wednesday:
SOVIET UNION
Major Event:
- started war with Poland and then Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Finland
- Peace treaty signed in 1921
- Stalin takes over
- Joined the league of nations
- signed non aggression pact with Germany
- later with japan
- Germans failed to take over Stalingrad
Deaths and Coasts:
- more than any other countries
- 11,000,000 Military
- 6,700,000 Civilian
Leader:
- Main leader: Joesph Stalin: he grew up poor; in teenage age he started to believe in Karl Marx and Communism
- Vladimir Lenin became leader of Soviets in 1917, died in 1924, that's when Stalin became leader
- wanted to be an industrial super power
- soviet union became part of allies
- died in 1953
- de stalinzation: get rid of Stalin's methods
- responsible for 20 millions deaths
Battle Strategies:
- had a lot of people; even women
- climate helped them; Germany wasn't prepared
- they burned the fighting ground; that the supplies of the enemy got destroyed
Hitlers plan:
- tried to take over Soviet union: operation Barbarossa
- wanted to take over the 3 cities: Stalingrad, Leningrad, Moscow
- at the end they took the land back from Germany
- they lost (at the beginning) because they didn't had the technology
- ended up being a fail for the axis power
Siege of Leningrad:
- September 8, 1943
- they surrounded the city
- people died of starvation
Battle of Stalingrad:
- Big turning point for Soviet Union
- one of the bloodiest battles
Battle of Berlin:
- end of war in Europe
- red army breached
Back home:
- really poor
- harsh discipline
- cannibalism stated
- was though because of the German Invasion
Generals who impacted the War:
- George Zhukov: led the red army; got popular, Stalin got jealous
- Boris shaposhinikav: planed the red army , organized
Why the Soviet won:
- because of the winter
- Allies came to help (GB and France)
Post war:
- enormous loss of 40 million
- mass shooting of civilians
- famine and disease
Stalin's Policy's Prior:
- they doped out of WWI
- purges and deportations to slave labor camps in Siberia, because of political opponent
- created a "cult of Personality": military all over the place, statues, pictures of the leader; makes people remember to make what they are supposed to do; have to love the leader
- Nationalization: government taking over peoples business
- collectivization: government takes over farmers
- -> many people were killed
- industrialization; 5 year plans; want to improve every 5 years
- banned religion
GREAT BRITAIN
Prior to WW2:
- don't want war again
- Hitler takes over the Rhineland
- Minster Chamberlain hands over the Sudetenland
Entering the war:
- Made allies with Poland
- Great Britain and France declared war on Germany 9/9/39
Churchill:
- Born into a wealthy family
- grew up in Dublin, Ireland
- wasn't good in school
- served in the army
- Became member of Parliament in 1900
- Served in WWI after Gallipoli failure
- collaborated with FDR and Joseph Stalin
- lost general election in July 1945
Thursday:
Career day
Friday:
No school
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