Stalin's Russia - World War II onwards 1939 - 1953

STALIN AND THE USSR
1. Stalin's popularity increased after defeating Germany
2. Communism spread
  1. China became communist in 1949
    1. Military and economic advisers from USSR sent to China
3. Stalin assisted North Korea during the Korean War in 1950 - 1953
4. Stalin died in 1953
  1. Nikita Khrushchev succeeds him
    1. Started 'de-stalinisation'
    2. Announced in 1956 that Lenin's Testament had called for Stalin's removal from power
WWII
1. Operation Barbarossa
  1. Severe winter 1941
  2. 'Blitzkrieg'
2. Battle of Stalingrad
  1. German's starved out
3. Battle of Kursk
4. War economy
  1. Lend-Lease
    1. Products didn't reach USSR until 1943
  2. Better/more tanks than Germany
  3. FYP4 strengthened the economy after the war
THE COLD WAR
1. East Berlin captured in 1945
2. Warsaw Pact
  1. Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Albania and USSR

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