Happy birthday Mollie and Makala!
Mine's tomorrow. =)
Picking back up with WW2 country blogs.
Russia: was not part of the united nations after they became communist, the Soviet Union. also, they felt slighted of land after WW1, as per the usual. Bolshevik Revolution made them communist, Vladmir Lenin was the first leader. he was a true marxist. really believed in communism, wanted everyone to be equal. but he dies, so his potential went byebye. Stalin rose to power, he wanted to build up the soviet military. but the first thing he tried to do was build up the economy- he wanted to move from agriculture to industrial, becuase russia was a bit behind on that. he put into action some 5-year plans in order to make the progression gradual and to slowly dissolve the government, too. however, as communist things go, people with guns are in charge. so lots of people got shot, and people didnt get much say, and all that. the government took charge of the entire economy, the farms and the businesses. 10 million people died, before WW2, in his own country. and hitler is moer famous than him for killing 12 million- during WW2. joseph stalin killed anyone he didnt trust or anyone who wouldnt give him their famr or business.
Stalin also wanted to solidify the borders. he was paranoid of usa attacking them, so he wanted to expand...we never did, but oh well.
Scorched Earth policy- as you retreat, burn and destroy everything left behind. that way, the enemy cant use it.
After germany turned on them, they were allies with us. but thats only cuz we had a common enemy. we knew we would have to deal with them after the war, cuz they were communist. they and we became world superpowers after the war, as we entered our cold war.
Great Britain: wanted to get rid of germany, but were ab=mbivilous about it because they were afraid of communism, and they knew that germany was strong enought to stop it.
had and has a Monarchy of some kind, although the king or queen is pretty much just a figurehead nowadays, and back then too.
Munich Conference. france and britain gave hitler czechoslovakia, gave hitler what he wanted. part of hitler's thing were he takes baby steps...Churchill critisized it, and was shunned as a war monger for wanted to strike hitler down while he was weak. this was in 38. after germany attacked poland, the brits realized he had been right.
self-preservation. they kept going with life, went to school, went to work, then hid in basements at night when germany bombed them. cuz germany bombed them every single night for years. churchill gave a speech with a famous quote ("We shall never surrender...")to motivate the people, cuz it would definitely be hard to endure that kind of thing.
Great Britain's goal was to stop hitler.
had bad land military. but eventually got some control over air and sea types. but they were known for "putting their head in the sand" as they gave in to hitler a lot and just tried to ignore him as if he'd eventually go away.
Allies: The Allied Powers. WW2 impacted GB greatly....they were destroyed, really. thanks to all the bombing, you know. WW2 was the last strike against GB's great empire. They were no longer powerful, no longer a superpower. their economy was decimated, along with their population and their land and colonies (they no longer had their colonies, actually). thats not to say they were no longer powerful, they just werent better than us. at all. nowadays, they are maybe 3rd or 4th.
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