Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Stalin's Russia - World War II onwards
1939 - 1953
- STALIN AND THE USSR
- Stalin's popularity increased after
defeating Germany
- Communism spread
- China became communist in 1949
- Military and economic advisers from USSR sent to China
- Stalin assisted North Korea during the
Korean War in 1950 - 1953
- Stalin died in 1953
- Nikita Khrushchev succeeds him
- Started 'de-stalinisation'
- Announced in 1956 that Lenin's Testament
had called for Stalin's removal from power
- WWII
- Operation Barbarossa
- Severe winter 1941
- 'Blitzkrieg'
- Battle of Stalingrad
- German's starved out
- Battle of Kursk
- War economy
- Lend-Lease
- Products didn't reach USSR until 1943
- Better/more tanks than Germany
- FYP4 strengthened the
economy after the war
- THE COLD WAR
- East Berlin captured in 1945
- Warsaw Pact
- Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria,
Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Albania
and USSR