Transcript WWII - Stalin ppt Tommy Choi & Jessie Cheung

Stalin
By Jessie Cheung
History Presentation
Basic Information
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Name: Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
(Known as Joseph Stalin means)
Birth: December 21, 1879
Place: Gori, Georgia
Dead: March 5, 1953 (74 years old)
Place: Moscow, Russia
Childhood
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Father was a bootmaker and mother was a washer
The forth Children, the first three died
Bad health since born
His mother was very protective towards him
Beat by father → hatred of authority
Age of 9, father left the family without support
~ School life I ~
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Started his education at age of eight in Gori
Church School
Spoke Georgian, but forced to speak Russian
Favorite hero was Koba, a legendary mountain
ranger → became Stalin’s 1st alias “revolutionary”
Age of 14, he graduated first in his class and
awarded a scholarship to the Seminary of Tiflis
Because of the lack of locally available university
education, he attended to Seminary
~ School life II ~
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he joined a secret organization called Messame
Dassy (supporters of Georgian independence
from Russia ) while studying at the seminary
Stalin first came to contact with the idea of Karl
Marx
Age of 20, expelled from the seminary
Work as a clerk at the Tiflis Observatory
Began writing articles for socialist Georgian
newspaper
♥ Marriage ♥
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In 1907, first wife, Ekaterina Svanidze died, only
four years after their marriage
Had a son called Yakov Dzhugashvili
In 1932, second wife, Nadeshda Alliluyeva died by
shooting herself after a quarrel with Stalin
Had a son, Vasiliy, and a daughter, Svetlana
Secretly married to a third wife named
Rosa Kaganovich ?
Political life start I
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1901, Stalin joined the Social Democratic Party
1902, Stalin was arrested
1903, dispute between Vladimir Lenin and Julius Martov
1904 Stalin escaped from Siberia and identified himself
with the Bolsheviks
1905, Stalin made a name as the organizer of daring
bank robberies and raids on money transports, he was
invited to meet Lenin in Finland
Stalin met Lenin in congresses
Political life start II
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1910, Changed his name to Stalin
Became a follower of Lenin
Stalin remained in exile during WWI
1917, Russian monarchy was crumbed, Stalin returned
1917, Stalin was editor of Pravda
Helped the Bolsheviks in the November Revolution in
1918
Established a Communist government
Communists fought a civil war against democratic
forces
Rise to Power I
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During the Russian Civil War, Stalin was a political
commissar in the Red Army
His first government position was as People’s
Commissar of Nationalities Affairs during 1917–1923
member of the Central Executive Committee of the
Congress of Soviets (from 1917)
Also was People's Commissar of the Workers and
Peasants Inspection (1919–1922)
member of the Revolutionary Military Council of the
republic (1920–23)
Rise to Power II
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On April 3, 1922, Stalin was the General Committee of
the Central Communist Committee of the All-Russian
Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
1922, he disagreed with Lenin over the issue of foreign
trade → Lenin began to fear
Lenin died in 1924
Acted like the leader of the Soviet Union
Gained power, Stalin continued Lenin's New Economic
Policy
Against the opponents I
Left-wing
 Joined forces with two left-wing
members of the Politburo, Gregory
Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev
→ keep Leon Trotsky away from power
 1925, removed his emery Leon Trotsky
 Trotsky and Zinoviev were expelled
from the party and Kamenev lost his
seat on the Central Committee during
the 15th Congress in 1927
Against the opponents II
Right-wing
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Gained popular appeal from his presentation 'man
of the people' from the poorer classes
concentrating in building "Socialism in One
Country" → optimistic
ban on factionalism
Got absolute power until the Great Purge ,
1937–1938
Great Purge 1938
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The Great Purge is the name given to campaigns of
political repression and persecution in the Soviet
Union controlled by Stalin during 1937 to 1938.
It involved the purge of the Communist Party of the
Soviet Union and the persecution of unaffiliated
persons, both occurring within a period
characterized by omnipresent police surveillance,
widespread suspicion of "saboteurs", imprisonment,
and killings.
World War II
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Signed Non-aggressive
Pact with German in Sept
23, 1939
Ended by June 22, 1941
when German invaded
Soviet Union
During WWII
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November, 1943, Stalin met Winston Churchill
and Franklin D. Roosevelt in Iran
February, 1945, Stalin, Winston Churchill and
Franklin D. Roosevelt met again in Yalta
Promised to enter the war against Japan
After WWII
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Leaded Soviet to victory against the Nazis
set up of communist regimes in Rumania, Bulgaria,
Hungary, East Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia
In 1948, Stalin ordered an economic blockade of
Berlin
Soon recognized Mao's People’s Republc of China
In 1950, he encouraged Kim II Sung, the communist
ruler of North Korea, to invade South Korea
A meeting between Stalin and Mao Zedong after
the CCP's 1949 victory over the KMT in the
Chinese Civil War
Question 1
Which child of Stalin was captured
by Germany?
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Yakov
Vasiliy
Svetlana
Nadeshda
Question 2
Who is not the enemy of Stalin
after he became the leader of
Soviet?
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Leon Trotsky
Gregory Zinoviev
Lev Kamenev
Vladimir Lenin
Question 3
When did Great Purge take place?
A:1935
B:1936
C:1937
D:1939
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1936
1937
1938
1940
Question 4
Why did Stalin order an economic
blockade of Berlin
retaliation
True
False
Bibliography
Wikipedia
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin
Joseph Stalin
 http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSstalin.htm
Book rages
 http://www.bookrags.com/Joseph_Stalin?gclid=CKDw9
cax2osCFQlQWAod7lJocQ
 http://www.bookrags.com/biography/joseph-stalin/
Youtube
 http://youtube.com/watch?v=m3WcJhjRnng&mode=rel
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