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Losif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili (Joseph Stalin) was born in Gori, Georgia
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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 -
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Rebelled against imperialist and religious order
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This excape was the first of many escapes from exile in the following decade
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Goes as a delegate to Bolshevik conference in Finland
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Bolsheviks officially separate from Social Democrats
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The Tsar's government falls, replaced with a Provisional Government. and eventually Bolshevik Communist Government.
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Trotsky organizes Red Army; Stalin commands forces in Tsaritsyn, Petrograd (St. Petersburg), and elsewhere.
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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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The plan concentrated industrialization, the production of iron, steel, machine tools, electric power, and transport
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Stalin meets with Roosevelt and Churchill about the opening of a second front against Nazi Germany
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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.
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Red Army controls all of Eastern Europe after Hitler committing suicide and ending the war.
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Stalin and Truman meet to further discuss the discrepancies of post-war Germany and it's reparations
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The alliance of the USSR and the new Communist China
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Soviet controlled North Korea invades U.S. controlled South Korea
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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.
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Died of a stroke