Stalin's Rise to Power

By michaila

  • Stalin appointed to first Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party

  • Stalin becomes first leader of Soviet Union

  • Lenin dies, Stalin wins control in Communist party

  • Stalin launches the Great Purge

  • Stalin and Hitler sign the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact

  • Germany breaks the pact, invading USSR, who is unprepared

  • Stalin stayed in Moscow as Germany invaded, destroying all remaining supplies

  • Soviets do good in the Battle of Stalingrad

  • Tehran Conference

  • Yalta Conference

  • Stalin started the Nuclear Age by using an atomic bomb

  • Stalin supported South Korea, eventually causing the Korean War

  • Stalin dies (FINALLY)