Week of Mar. 7-11

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Soviet Union
- Battles
  - Battle of Stalingrad
  - Battle of Moscow- Russians were prepared for the winter
  - Battle of Leningrad- German Siege for 900 days
  - Battle of Berlin- Red army smarts, slaughter of wessies, Hitler was getting married and then committed suicide
- How did they help?
  - Battle of Berlin
  - Ended on a slaughter of Germans
- Strategies
  - Trench Warfare
  - Roadblocks
  - Tank Raids
  - Artilller
- "Grand Alliance"
  - Joseph Stalin(1929-1953)- Soviet Union Dictator
- Total Cost for the war
  - $192 billion
- Casualties
  - Fighting- 8,668,000 to 10,922,000
  - Sickness- 27,000,000
- Propaganda
  - Germany is an animal
  - Doing everything the can
  - Choking hitler
- Homefront
  - Everyone had to pack up and move east
  - lack of supplies
  - peasants were on collective farms
  - many women participated
- How was the country?
  - Attacked on west had to move east
  - Scared
- Important People
  - Georgy Zhukov
    - Most successful russian general
    - "man who never lost a battle"
    - demoted by stalin because he was powerful
  - Vyacheslav Molotov
    - foreign minister
    - helped with the pact between Germany and Russia
    - In charge of collective farms
    - "the enemy will be defeated. the victory will be ours"
  - Ivan Konev
    - One of the most outstanding generals
    - 1941- commander of the western front
    - Stalin planned to execute him but general zhukov saved him
  - Nikita Khrushchev
    - political commisioner
    - huge stalin supporter
    - after stalin's death he lead the Soviet Union
- Impact of the War
  - Destroyed many big cities
  - Set up Communist Governments in:
    - Poland
    - Hungary
    - Romania
    - Etc.
  - became a leading world power
- USSR prior to WWII
  - drops out of WWI (1917)to fight the Bolshevik Revolution
  - 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
  - Stalin instituted his retreat and "scorched earth" policies
  - the Russian winter of 1941-42 changed the tide of the war
  - Operation Barbarossa
    - starving to death
    - battle of stalingrad
France
- France surrendered
- Was invaded by the German military
- Signed all of the pacts
- Built a concrete fortification between Great Britain and Germany
- Leader of the military: Charles De Gaulle
  - Free french underground
  - fled to Great Britain
- French Resistance
- Vichy Government
  - specific amount of French people Hitler allowed to rule South France
  - Allie of Germany
  - Leader: Marshall Petain
- D-Day
  - meant to get Germany back

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