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Birth
Losif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili (Joseph Stalin) was born in Gori, Georgia -
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Lifespan
Quotes:
-“Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.”
-"I trust no one, not even myself."
-"I believe in one thing only, the power of human will." Nicknames:
-Father of Nations
-Brilliant Genius of Humanity
-Great Architect of Communism
-Gardener of Human Happiness -
Enters Gori Church School
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Enrolls in Tiflis Theological Seminary
Rebelled against imperialist and religious order -
Joined the First Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
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Expelled from the Seminary
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Arrested for the first time, exiled to Siberia
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Social Democrats split into Bolsheviks and Mensheviks
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Escapes from Siberia
This excape was the first of many escapes from exile in the following decade -
Meets Lenin for the first time
Goes as a delegate to Bolshevik conference in Finland -
Appointed to the Party's Central Committee by Lenin
Bolsheviks officially separate from Social Democrats -
Co-writes, with Lenin, "Marxism and the National Question"
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WWI
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Russian/Bolshevik Revolution
The Tsar's government falls, replaced with a Provisional Government. and eventually Bolshevik Communist Government. -
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Civil War
Trotsky organizes Red Army; Stalin commands forces in Tsaritsyn, Petrograd (St. Petersburg), and elsewhere. -
Elected General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Founding of USSR
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Lenin dies
Stalin survives the reading of the Testament by the Central Committee despite Lenin's wishes for Stalin to be removed from power. -
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Rise to Power
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Five-Year Plan Implemented
The plan concentrated industrialization, the production of iron, steel, machine tools, electric power, and transport -
Becomes dictator of USSR
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Nazi-Soviet Nonagression Pact is signed in Moscow
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WWII
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Germany invades and breaks Nonagression Pact
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Teheran Conference
Stalin meets with Roosevelt and Churchill about the opening of a second front against Nazi Germany -
Yalta Conference
Stalin meets with Roosevelt and Churchill about post-war Europe. There was much controversy about what to do with Germany. Stalin wanted Germany to pay reparations while Roosevelt and Churchill wanted Germany to recover. -
Red Army controls Eastern Europe
Red Army controls all of Eastern Europe after Hitler committing suicide and ending the war. -
Potsdam Conference
Stalin and Truman meet to further discuss the discrepancies of post-war Germany and it's reparations -
Supported Communist uprisings in Turkey and Greece
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Communists seize power in Czechoslovakia
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Blockade of East Berlin
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Supports Communist uprising in China
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Successfully test atom bomb
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Sino-Soviet Treaty signed
The alliance of the USSR and the new Communist China -
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Korean War
Soviet controlled North Korea invades U.S. controlled South Korea -
Jewish "Doctors' Plot" Announced
A fabricated conspiracy that a group of predominately Jewish doctors were plotting to assassinate Stalin. Was created to induce anti-Semitic feelings on the public. -
Death
Died of a stroke
