How Did Joseph Stalin Rise To Power
Richard Boyer
Mr. Shoughrue
8/13/14
Joseph Stalin Joseph Stalin was born on December 18, 1879, in Gori, Georgia. Stalin was the Soviet Union dictator for over two decades. Joseph Stalin rose to power as General Secretary of the Communist Party. When Vladimir Lenin died Stalin took power as the Soviet Dictator. Stalin’s Red Army helped defeat Nazi Germany in World War II. Joseph Stalins’ birth name is Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili. He changed his name later on in his life he changed his name to Joseph Stalin, Stalin meaning man of steel. In 1939 war broke out in Europe. Stalin made a quick a smart move and signed a nonaggressive pact with the Nazi warlord, Adolf Hitler. On August 23, 1939 Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union signed a nonaggressive …show more content…
This surprised the whole world. What the nonaggressive pact did was to guaranty that they wouldn’t attack each other. They both were able to gain a lot by signing this pact. Germany had benefited by protecting themself from having to fight a two front war, meaning that they didn’t have to protect two different sides of their boarders, in the war Hitler was on his way to beginning, known as World War II. Stalin was able to receive land from this deal, including parts of Poland, which Stalin was after anyways, and the Baltic States. Unsurprisingly Hitler launched a surprise attack in 1941 breaking the nonaggressive pact that was signed just a few years earlier. Due to Stalin’s poor leadership and lack of readiness, despite most of the world seeing it coming, the Soviet Unions army, also known as the USSR, suffered huge losses. Most of the world seen this attack coming but Stalin was blind …show more content…
Never the less, the world feared this war more then any other. They believed that if Russia and the United States broke out in to war, they would just fire atomic bombs at each other. The atomic bomb was developed during and used to end World War II by the United States. Stalin was able to place spies on what was suppose to be a project not even the vice president wasn’t even informed about. Not that long after World War II ended Stalin was able to develop the second atomic
Mr. Shoughrue
8/13/14
Joseph Stalin Joseph Stalin was born on December 18, 1879, in Gori, Georgia. Stalin was the Soviet Union dictator for over two decades. Joseph Stalin rose to power as General Secretary of the Communist Party. When Vladimir Lenin died Stalin took power as the Soviet Dictator. Stalin’s Red Army helped defeat Nazi Germany in World War II. Joseph Stalins’ birth name is Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili. He changed his name later on in his life he changed his name to Joseph Stalin, Stalin meaning man of steel. In 1939 war broke out in Europe. Stalin made a quick a smart move and signed a nonaggressive pact with the Nazi warlord, Adolf Hitler. On August 23, 1939 Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union signed a nonaggressive …show more content…
This surprised the whole world. What the nonaggressive pact did was to guaranty that they wouldn’t attack each other. They both were able to gain a lot by signing this pact. Germany had benefited by protecting themself from having to fight a two front war, meaning that they didn’t have to protect two different sides of their boarders, in the war Hitler was on his way to beginning, known as World War II. Stalin was able to receive land from this deal, including parts of Poland, which Stalin was after anyways, and the Baltic States. Unsurprisingly Hitler launched a surprise attack in 1941 breaking the nonaggressive pact that was signed just a few years earlier. Due to Stalin’s poor leadership and lack of readiness, despite most of the world seeing it coming, the Soviet Unions army, also known as the USSR, suffered huge losses. Most of the world seen this attack coming but Stalin was blind …show more content…
Never the less, the world feared this war more then any other. They believed that if Russia and the United States broke out in to war, they would just fire atomic bombs at each other. The atomic bomb was developed during and used to end World War II by the United States. Stalin was able to place spies on what was suppose to be a project not even the vice president wasn’t even informed about. Not that long after World War II ended Stalin was able to develop the second atomic