Monday: video
Tuesday: video
Wednesday: presentation: soviet union
War with poland: 1920
Peace treaty: 1921
Stalin takes over: 1924
Non aggression pact with Germany: 1939
germany invades russia: 1941
11 000 000 military deaths
6 700 000 civilians deaths
192 billion costs
Lenin was the leader before Stalin, Lenin died in 1922
Joseph Stalin: poor, liked the Karl marx theory, involved in the bolchevik revolution
died in 1953 from a stroke, responsible for 20 million of deaths
Stalin's Policy before WWII: dropped out of WWI, purges and deportations to slaves labor camps, strengthened the intelligence and secret service, cult of personnality, pictures, statues, nationalization and collectivization of the soviet economy, industrualization, five years plans, led to famine, banned religion
invaded Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in 1939
Battle strategies: a lot of soldiers, even women, used to the winter, burn the fighting ground so germany would have resources left,
Helped germany invaded Poland in 1939
operation barbarossa, 1941, failed for the axis power
Leningrad: september 8 1941, 1 million civilians died, lasted 872 days
Stalingrad: august 23, 1942, bloodiest, 2 million soldiers died
Battle of Berlin: april 14, 1945,
Home front: buildings were burned, poor, hunger,
Zukhov: leading the army, took Berlin, demoted by Stalin because he was becoming too important
Shaposhnikov: organized pre war
Why URSS:
winter, fighters
Post war: 40 million loss, mass shooting of civilians, famine, disease, destalinization
Great Britain:
don't war, recovering from WWI
Prime minister Neville Chamberlain
Winston Churchill: dublin ireland, struggled in school, served in the army, member of the parliament in 1900, appointed prime minister in 1940, collaborated with FDR,
Thursday: career fair
Friday: no school
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