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USSR in WW2

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  • Stalin

    1. Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union for a quarter of a century.
    2. He forced the collectivization of agriculture which cost millions of lives.
    3. The population of the Soviet Union suffered because of the Great Terror of the 1930s.

  • Hitler-Stalin Pact

    1. The Hitler-Stalin Pact was a non-aggression pact to keep Germany from fighting on two fronts.
    2. The pact did not keep them from fighting, but it helped Hitler in the war.
    3. They agreed to split Poland, half to Russia half to Germany.

  • Brest-Litovsk

    1. German and Soviet army elements finally meet one another in Poland at Brest-Litovsk.

  • non-aggression pact

    Soviet Union and Japan sign a non-aggression pact

  • Operation Barbarossa

    1. German codename for the invasion of the USSR

  • Leningrad

    1. The siege of Leningrad was an attack on Leningrad by German forces.
    2. It took 872 days for the USSR to regain it.
    3. Capturing it was one of the three main goals of Operation Barbarossa.
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    The Batlle of Stalingrad

    1. The battle of Stalingrad was considered a turning point of World War II.
    2. It was fought between 1942 and 1943 in Russia.
    3. It was considered one of the most brutal wars.

  • Reichstag

  • Potsdam Conference

    1. The potsdam conference is held between the Us, the ussr, and the united kingdom to decide nazi germanys punishment