March 7-11

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Monday- notes

Tuesday- notes

Wednesday- watched movie

Thursday- watched movie

Friday- no school

United States

• US became the #1 power after the war

Soviet Union

• GOALS
  • to destroy their most dangerous rival: Nazi Germany
  • to expand their Soviet Communism system to control as many people and resources as possible
• Operation Barbarossa
  • Secret attack between Soviet Union and Germany
  • A lot of battles
  • Germany invaded Russia
  • Stalingrad
    • 90% of the city was under Germany's control
    • if Soviets retreat, German's would kill you
    • A) fight and die as heroes
    • B) retreat and get shot, looked at as a trader
  • Moscow
    • never got to it
  • Leningrad
    • people starved to death
    • people cannibalizing people
• Battle of Stalingrad
  • SU- 1,000,000 casualties
  • Germany- 920,000
  • Push East
  • Biggest battle
• Battle of Moscow
  • Good defense
  • Winter helps because German supply lines lacked
  • Over 1,000,000 casualties
• *Russians were prepared for winter*

• Battle of Berlin
  • Red Army Smarts
  • Slaughter of Wessies
  • Hitler got married and committed suicide
• Battle of Leningrad
• Soviet Union helped with the Battle of Berlin
• Soviet Union ended on a "slaughter" of Germans
• Soviet Union Strategies
  • Trench Warfare
  • Roadblocks
  • Tank Raids
  • Artillery
• The Grand Alliance
  • Soviet Union
  • United States
  • Great Britain
• Joseph Stalin
  • 1929-1953 Soviet Union dictator
  • Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
  • Lenin suffered a stroke in 1922 and died
  • Lenin did not like Stalin
  • Power struggle after Lenin died, Stalin won
  • Was in power by late 1920's
• $192 billion war costs
• Between 8 million - 11 million war deaths
• 27 million casualties
• Propaganda
  • Posters
  • Radio
  • Newspaper
• Home front
  • Everyone packed up and moved East to get away from the German Invasion
  • Many children still attend school even though there was a lack of supplies
  • War production increased
  • Peasants were forced to work on collective farms
    • farms were taken away from farmers due to lack of food in country
  • women participated in war
• Attacked on west, moved east
• Important People
  • Georgy Zhukov
    • most successful Russian general in WW2
    • Germany tried to take over Russia by invading Moscow-failed
    • "The man who never lost a battle"
    • Powerful-demoted by Stalin
  • Vyackeslav Molotov
    • Foreign minister
    • Helped a lot with the pact between Germany and Russia
      • dividing up the Baltic states up
    • In charge of collective farms
    • "The enemy will be defeated. The victory will be ours"
  • Ivan Konev
    • One of the most outstanding generals
      • major military operations
    • 1941- commander of western front
      • responsibility of defending approaches to Moscow
      • Failed within one month
  • Nikita Khrushchev
    • Political commissioner of the war
    • Huge Stalin supporter
    • Led Soviet Union after Stalin death
• Impact
  • Destroyed big cities
  • Set up Communist Governments in Poland and Hungary
  • Becomes a leading world power
• Prior to WWII
  • Russia drops out of WWI to fight Bolshevik Revolution
  • Russia became communist and changed name to USSR in 1922
  • Purges and deportations to slave labor camps in Siberia
  • Strengthened the intelligence and secret service
  • Created a "Cult Personality"
  • Nationalization and Collectivization of the Soviet economy
    • Soviet Union taking work and farms away from the people
    • "It is now the governments"
  • Industrialization of the Soviet economy
  • Five Year Plans
  • Policies led to famine in Ukraine (5-10 million died- considered a genocide by some)
    • wanted people to focus more on industry, not food
  • Banned religion
• USSR in WWII
  • Signed German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact in 1939 leading to the invasion of Poland
  • Also invaded Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Finland in 1939
  • Signed Neutrality Pact with Japan in 1941
  • Stalin instituted his retreat and "scorched earth" policies
  • The Russian winter of 1941-42 changed the tide of the war

France

• Invaded in May of 1940 by Germany
• Within a month, France was taken over
• Built a concrete fortification along the border of Great Britain and Germany
• Germany went up through Belgium to get around the wall
• Free French Underground (gov't)
  • fled to Great Britain
  • under Charles De Gaulle
  • based in London
  • ally of ours
• Vichy Gov't
  • led by Marshall Petain
  • helped fight
  • helped round up French Jews
  • ally of Germany
• June 6, 1944, France is attacked and captured
  • take them back from Germany
  • D-Day