Stalin
The dictator of the Soviet Union, whose rule lasts until 1953.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
The river that connects the Eastern and Western parts of the Soviet Union.
What is the Volga River?
The industrial center of the Soviet Union.
The person that led Germany in WWII.
Who is Adolf Hitler?
This causes Stalin to start the Great Purge.
What is Sergei Kirov's assassination, paranoia, and resistance?
Their death allowed Stalin to rise to power.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
Before the Battle of Stalingrad, Germany invaded Moscow. This causes their defeat.
What is Stalin's scorched-earth policy?
The acronym is USSR.
What is Union of Soviet Social Republics?
The reason why the Soviet Union is not easily taken over.
What is the Soviet Union's large size and harsh winters?
People killed by Stalin's Great Purge.
Who are the Bolsheviks, Communists, Red Army, children, and families?
It inspired Stalin's communist uprising.
What is Karl Max's Communist Manifesto?
When Hitler says this, Stalin orders the Soviets to "not take a step back."
What is the killing and deportation of men and women?
A state or government-controlled economy.
What is a command economy?
The conference that divided Germany into four occupation zones, and Berlin into four.
What is the Yalta Conference?
The Battle of Stalingrad begins.
What happens August 23, 1942?
This event was caused by conspiracies against Stalin's rule and led to thousands of deaths.
What is the Great Purge or Terror?
Stalin's plan to win back Stalingrad and trap German troops.
What is Operation Uranus?
The policy that creates large, time-consuming government-owned farms from smaller ones. As a result, peasants lose power and relocate.
The German general that begs Hitler to surrender but is denied.
Who is Freidrich Paulus?
This increases as result of Stalin's first five-year plan.
What is industrial output and agriculture?
The Big Three
Who is Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin?
The significance of the Battle of Stalingrad.
What is Hitler's public failure that turns the tide for the Soviets and Allies?
The German Airforce
What is the German Luftwaffe?
These camps scared Germans.
What are the Gulags?
Stalin prompts this war
What are the Korean Wars?