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Life of Stalin
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Ioseb Besarionis Dze Jugashvili is born
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Stalin is arrested for his first time
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Stalin joins the Bolsheviks, led by Lenin
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Changes name to Joesph Stalin
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Lenin appoints Stalin Commissar of Nationalities.
Stalin recieves much power in this new position -
The first of Stalin's Five-Year Plans begins
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Stalin becomes allies with U.S. and Great Britain
They become allied after reported Nazi attacks on the Red Army -
Stalin rejects aid from the Marshall Plan
Stalin believes the Marshall Plan is giving the U.S. too much power, therefore, he rejects it's help. -
Stalin grants North Korea permission to invade South Korea
This leads to the Korean War -
Joseph Stalin dies