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Ronald presented on GB during WWII

Home Front
- Limited consumption
- Children were sent to live in the country
- Women grew food and recycled
  - Metals
  - paper
  - Bones
- "Come into the factories"
- "Save the kitchen waste to feed the pigs"
Impact
- Government became more involved in people's lives
GB Results
- UK lost its leading position
- UK lost many colonies
- New peace organizations
  - UN
  - World trade organization
Timeline
- USA joins
- Allies succeed in North Africa and attack Italy
- D-Day
- Allies close in on Berlin
- Hitler commits suicide
- Japan surrenderes

Soviet Union

Events
- Russian civil war
  - Fall of the Tsar
    - Empire was unstable
  - Red and White armies
    - Red- Communism
  - White- Monarchist/ Capitalist
- Stalin's Five year plan
  - Unrealistic goals
  - wanted to produce more goods
  - industry was controlled by government
  - Definitions
    - Collectivism- Giving a group priority over each individual
    - Nationalism- bringing private assets into public assets
      - Government took over all of the farms and business
- Soviet and German non aggression Pact
  - Signed on August 23rd, 1939
  - Guaranteed that the two countries would remain allies
  - was broken when Germany invaded Russia
Basic Facts-
- Deaths- 23,100,000
  - Most during WWII
- Jewish Death's 1,000,000
- $3.5 trillion
Interesting Facts
- 80% of males born in 1923 didn't survive WWII
- More Russians lost their lives during Leningrad than U.S. and British soldiers in the whole war
War Goals-
- Stalin's actions to expand as much as possible in all directions
- Destroy Nazi Germany
- Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia
- Expand Soviet Communism
- Force German to surrender
Impact-
- Economy
- Resources
- Casualties
- limited credits from GB and Sweden
- Reparations
- USSR becomes world power
Cold War-
- Soviet expansion into Eastern Europe fueled American fears
- Cold War
Why the Soviet's won WWII
- Supplies to last Russian winter
- More people
- Germany invaded too much land
- Underestimated by Germany
Important Leaders
- Joseph Stalin
  - Par of the Bolshevik Revolution
  - Came to power in 1922
  - Described as ruthless and determined
  - Signed non- aggression pact
  - Allied power
- Georgy Zhukov
  - Chief of general staff
  - Signed the "Directive of Peoples"
    - called for a counter on the Operation Barbarossa
  - Captured Berlin, Germany
- Nikita Khrushchev
  - Took command of Soviet Union in 1953
  - Made sure that commanders did their job
  - Stationed in Poland and Kiev
Battle Strategies
- Deep Operation
  - Called of particular operations
  - More depth in battle
  - Created by Bolshevik Revolution
- Maskirovka
  - Use speed and deception to catch enemies off guard
  - Stalingrad
    - Germany believed they would easily take over
    - Russian winter helped her win the war
- Scorched Earth Policy
  - Burn and destroy
    - Crops
    - buildings
    - Resources
    - Food
- Operation Barbarossa
  - Farther into Soviet Union
  - Harsh conditions
  - Scorched policy left nothing behind
  - Germany was slowly pushed out of Soviet Union
- Stalin's Strategy
  - "Don't die a traitor, die a hero"
  - "Die fighting for your country"
Stalin
- Background
  - Joseph Stalin
    - Not real name
  - Grew up in poverty
  - Studied priesthood
    - Kicked out
  - took part in strikes
  - Exiled to Siberia multiple times
  - Lived to 73
  - Died on March 5, 1953
    - Heart attack
- Coming to Power
  - Joined socialist group
  - promised
    - peace
    - land
    - bread
  - Country descends into a civil war
  - Soviet Union founded in 1922
  - Lenin dies in 1924
    - Stalin appoints himself leader
  - Anyone against communism
    - Sent to camps
    - Executed
    - Famines
    - 8 million arrests
The Home front
- Massive destruction
- Rationing
- Women/ children
  - worked in factories
- Marriage and birth rates
  - dropped
- Used to shortages
- Leningrad
  - Sept 1941-1944
  - German Army surrounded the city
  - Hunger
  - Disease
  - Cannibalism
  - Factory work
  - "Road of life"
    - Lake Ladoga would freeze during the winter
    - People would try to cross it
Major Battles
- Siege of Leningrad
  - Lasted 872 days
  - 900 day siege
  - Lake Ladoga
    - people would try to cross
    - Supplies
  - January 1944
  - Soviets broke through
  - 3,436,066 casualties
- Battle of Moscow
  - Hitler wanted to take Moscow
  - Soviet Union won
  - turning point in the war
  - 1,200,000 killed
- Battle of Stalingrad
  - July 17,1942
  - Major industrial and communications for Soviets
  - Shooting
  - Turning point
  - Stopped German Forces
- Battle of Berlin
- 1945
- Soviet attacked the Oder River
- Took the city
- German generals surrendered
- 1,298,745 deaths

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