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World War two Leaders
leadersWinston Churchill was born in Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, on 30th November, 1874.Prime Minister of Great Britain during most of the war, from 1940 to 1945, Churchill led Britain to victory.
Stalin was very brutal Communist dictator of Russia (1928-1953). In the years before World War 2 Stalin murdered or imprisoned almost all of Russia's senior military officers, and millions of other Rus
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Soviet Union
Soviet SoldiersIn August 1939, at Stalin's direction, the Soviet Union entered into a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany, containing a secret protocol, dividing the whole of eastern Europe into German and Soviet spheres of influence. Thereafter, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded their apportioned sections of Poland. The Soviet Union later invaded Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and part of Romania, along with an attempted invasion of Finland. Stalin and Hitler later traded proposals for a Soviet entry into th -
Hitlers Deal with Russia
Stalin clearly explained all that to his government in a meeting on Aug. 19, 1939, in which he told them exactly why Russia is going to sign (four days later) the deal with Hitler's Germany, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, that cleared the way for Hitler to start World War 2. -
Molotov-Ribentrop Pact
Stalin's Communist Russia signed a non-aggressive pact with Hitler's Nazi Germany to avoid Hitler's aggression and to keep it out of Russia.The treaty also said it the event of Political relocation, Germany would get Easter Poland and Lithuania, while Russia would get Eastern Poland, Estonia, Finland, Latvia and Bessarabia. -
Soviets invade Poland
After signing a cease-fire with Japan, the Soviets invaded Poland. The territory was divided between Russia, Germany, Lithuania, and Slovakia. Poland did not surrender, they established the Poland Underground State and kept fighting with the Allies- -
Winter War
Russia invades Finland, thinking that Finland would be the new base for the Germans and because they wanted to protect Leningrad, which was forty kilometers from the Finnish border. The Russians had three times the people, thirty times as many aircraft, and a hundred times as many tanks. -
Winter War ends.
The Moscow Peace Treaty ended the Winter War between Finland and Russia. The League of Nations labeled the attach illegal and expelled Russia from the League of Nations of 14 December 1930. Soviets lost a lot in the war and Finland ceded 11% of its pre-war territory and 30% of its economic assests to Russia. The Soviet Republic's international reputation was damaged. Hitler thinks Russian military is ineffective. -
Occupation of Baltic States
Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are occupied by the Soviet Union under the Molotov-Ribentrop Pact, later taken over by Germany when they took over Russia, then incorporated into the Reichskommissariat Ostland of the Third Reich -
Russia in Romania
Russia delivered an ultimatum to three Romanian states. They evacuated their troops and administration to avoid military conflict. Bessarabia, Northern Bukovina, and Hertza were annexed into the the Soviet Republic as a constituent republic of the Soviet Republic -
Germany in Romania
Germany enters Romania under the premise of to help organize army, but Hitler's main goal is to protect the oil from the Soviet Republic. -
Operation Barbarossa
Germany invades Russia. Hitler orders maximum cruelty against civilians. -
Russias Gigantic Attack
Defeat the exhausted Germany and its allies across the entire front from the Finland in the North to the Black Sea in the South - a mirror image of the German attack that eventually started in June 22, 1941. -
Russias Red Army
Hitler's Germany managed to be the first to attack, by a narrow gap of a few weeks at most (Suvorov's conclusion, based on various evidence, is that Russia's Red Army was going to attack on July 6, 1941, so Hitler got ahead of them by exactly two weeks). -
German Sixth Army surrenders
German Surrenders At StalinGuard</a>On this day, the last of the German forces fighting at Stalingrad surrender, despite Hitler's earlier declaration that "Surrender is out of the question. The troops will defend themselves to the last!" On February 2, 1943 German Sixth Army surrenders.
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Romanians Surrender
Romania surrenders to the Russians. Its oil fields were Germany's only source of natural oil -
Finland and Bulgaria Surrender
Finland and Bulgaria surrenders to the Russians -
Russia + germany
The Russians reach Germany itself at the Oder river -
Rusiians and Auschwitz camp
The Russians liberate the Auschwitz death camp -
Russains + Hungary
The Russians occupy Budapest, Hungary. Dresden bombed. -
Russians + Vienna
The Russians enter Vienna -
Russian + Berlin
The Russians begin final advance to Berlin -
Russian + American
Russian and American Forces meet -
Russian war japan
Russia declares war on Japan -
Russia won World War 2
Indeed Russia is credited with the taking of Berlin but, Patton's army was told to hold up at the Rhine River way before the Russians arrived. Eisenhower had agreed to do this for whatever reason. Perhaps he saw the cost of lives it would take to secure Berlin as something the Russians would enjoy doing, more so than he was willing to sacrifice.
