People presented. Quiz Thursday on all the leaders (what did they do for their country, how did they lose power, and what they look like) and 1930s topics up to 1938 (Austrian Anchluss)
Notes:
Joseph Stalin
- leader of Russia
- rose to power because he got close to Vladimir Lenin and ruled after him
- made a non-aggression act with Hitler and then invaded Poland with Germany
- Hitler hated Stalin and vice-versa; when Germany invaded the Soviet Union, the pact was broken and Soviets declared war against Germany and Hitler
- ruled by terror
- would kill anyone who disagreed with him or threatened his power
- killed more people than even Hitler during WWII
- lost power: held power until his death (died of a stroke at 75 years old); remembered as the man who saved his country from Nazi control
- he didn't discriminate; he would kill anyone who opposed him, even his own son
FDR
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt won the 1932 presidential election against Hoover
- served 3 terms, died in beginning of his 4th term(longest of any president and many thought he was trying to become a dictator)
- delivered the New Deal, which recovered the banks; got us out of the Great Depression so has gone down as one of our greatest presidents
- role in WWII: at first, kept us neutral. After Pearl Harbor, declares war. Led us through WWII
- big believer in the atomic bomb after Albert Einstein wrote him a letter and then they got to work on one
- died of a stroke a month before WWII ended
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