MON:
Soviet Union
- stalin came to power after lenin died
- general secretary
- head of communist party
- "iron fist"
- 5 year plan
- increase output of industrial goods like electrical power,capital goods and agriculture
Purges
- led by stalin
- stalin's terror
- result of paranoia and desire to ba a ruler
- had a terrifying system of labor camps
- the worse worst was 1934-1939
- 20 mio people were sent to labor camps
- mother taught kids that stalin was the wisest man of age
Losing power
- suffered before his death
- paralyzed and speechless
- many death scares
- died march 5th, 1953 of cerebral hemorrhage
homefront
- women
- military
- economy'
- rations
- economy
- heavy industry
propaganda
- posters
- newspapers
- radio
- schools
Russian winter of 1941
- Moscow, average temperature doesn't climb over freezing point
- Winter of 1941 was coldest winter in 20th century
- germany expected a quick war
- no winter supplies
- Nazi Germany had roughly 3.6 mio troops
- Anybody who originated from USSR was used to cold weather
Operation Barbarossa
- German Army
- did not achieve main goal
- had german troops over 1.3 mio square km
- nazi's who needed supplies most, were farthest away
- the roads the nazis used were terrible
- dirty and snowy
- supplies
- nowhere the volume needed
- many Wehrmacht died
- no step back order
- declared to every soldier in the red army
- no surrender
- anyone who stepped back was shot
Impact of WW2 on USSR
- wasteland
- scorched earth policy
- famine
- land
- superpower
General Georgy Zhukov
- russian general
- Berlin Attack
- "man who did not lose a battle"
- General Ivan Konev
- red army general
- 1st commanded Ukrainian front
- Invasion of Poland
-Invasion of Ukraine
General Georgy Chicherin
- soviet diplomat
TUE:
Joseph Stalin
-born in Georgia
- suffered a stroke in 1922 and died
- by the time he died, Stalin didn't like Lenin
- After Lenin died, there was a power struggle to see who would take over
- Stalin won and was in power in 1920's
USSR prior to WWII
- Russia drops out of WWI to fight the Communist (Bolshevik) Revolution
- Russia became communist and changed name to USSR in 1922
- Purges and deportations to slave labor camps in Siberia (Gulags)
- strengthened the intelligence and secret service
- created a cult of personality
- nationalization and collectivization of the soviet economy
- Industrialization of the soviet economy
- five year plans
- policies led to famine in Ukraine (5-10 million died considered a genocide by some)
- 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
- invaded by Germany in June, 1941
United States
major events
- Normalcy and Isolationsim
MIT:
No Class
THU:
invasion of poland
- Germany won
- Germany and Soviet Union were "allies"
United States continued
- weapons
- Springfield M1903
- MK2
- Browning M1917
- Colt M1911
FDR
- born in NY,
- family was very wealthy
- was educated and tutored until the age of 14
- entered politics in1910
- reelected into State senate in 1912
- 1933 took oath of office
- 1936 he got re-elected for second term
Truman
- grew up on a famr and didn't go to college
- had many jobs
- construction, clerk, bookkeeper at a bank
- 33rd president, democrat
- took oath of office in 1945
- re-elected in 1946
Why US won the war
- Pearl Harbor
- more airplanes than all major powers combined
- US was very heavy on the Navy and sending troops across sea
- technology
Battle strategies
- bombing german cities and army camps
FRI:
Homefront
- making weapons
- cost-plus-a-fixed-free system
- making transportation
Propaganda
- men: songs and war
- women: getting the work done
Making weapons
- the military spending in 1940, helped the unemployed return to work and start making weapons
United States in WWII
- Kellogg-Briand Pact
Neutrality
Interventionists vs Isolationists
Neutrality acts
- stop trading with countries at war
- stop loaning money to counties at war
- cash and carry system - weapons not included
- cash and carry system - weapons included
Bases for destroyers
- passed in september, 1940 between the US and Great Britain
- Fifty US were destroyers were given t the US
End of the neutrality act
- the end of neutrality for the US came with the Lend-Lease Act
- the act allowed the US to sell, lend or give to allied powers
Selective Training and Service act
- drafted men
Pearl Harbor December 7th, 1941
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