Joseph Stalin

Examples of Joseph Stalin in the following topics:

• The Tehran Conference

  • The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D.
  • The Tehran Conference (codenamed Eureka) was a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D.
  • Roosevelt attempted to cope with Stalin's onslaught of demands, but was able to do little except appease Stalin.
  • The Conference further took note of Joseph Stalin's statement that the Soviet forces would launch an offensive at about the same time with the object of preventing the German forces from transferring from the Eastern to the Western Front.
  • From left to right: Joseph Stalin, Franklin D.

• War Aims and Strategy

  • Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin), together with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, cooperated informally on a plan in which American and British troops concentrated in the West; Soviet troops fought on the Eastern front; and Chinese, British, and American troops fought in Asia and the Pacific.
  • Premier Joseph Stalin had declined to attend, citing the ongoing Battle of Stalingrad as requiring his presence in the Soviet Union.
  • Roosevelt made a concerted effort to arrange a one-on-one meeting with Stalin in Fairbanks.
  • The Allied leaders of the European theater: Joseph Stalin, Franklin D.
  • From left to right: Joseph Stalin, Franklin D.

• German–Soviet Treaty of Friendship

  • The German–Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Demarcation (later known as the German-Soviet Frontier Treaty) was a second supplementary protocol of the 1939 Hitler-Stalin Pact.
  • It was signed by Joachim von Ribbentrop and Vyacheslav Molotov, the foreign ministers of Germany and the Soviet Union respectively, in the presence of Joseph Stalin.
  • Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin ordered the Soviet invasion of Poland on 17 September, a day after the Soviet–Japanese ceasefire agreement came into effect on 16 September.
  • Stalin's invasion of Bukovina in 1940 violated the pact, as it went beyond the Soviet sphere of influence agreed with the Axis.
  • Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov signs the German–Soviet Pact in Moscow, September 28, 1939; behind him are Richard Schulze-Kossens (Ribbentrop's adjutant), Boris Shaposhnikov (Red Army Chief of Staff), Joachim von Ribbentrop, Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Pavlov (Soviet translator).

• The Yalta Conference

  • Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Premier Joseph Stalin, respectively, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization.
  • Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin during the Yalta Conference.
  • The countries later became known as Stalin's Satellite Nations.
  • Stalin agreed to enter the fight against the Empire of Japan.
  • Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin.

• Yalta and the Postwar World

  • Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and General Secretary Joseph Stalin, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization.
  • Stalin pledged to permit free elections in Poland, but forestalled ever honoring his promise.
  • Roosevelt obtained a commitment by Stalin to participate in the United Nations.
  • Stalin requested that all of the 16 Soviet Socialist Republics would be granted U.N. membership.
  • Yalta summit in February 1945 with (from left to right) Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin.

• The Tehran Meeting

  • The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting held between Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill in 1943 in the Soviet Embassy in Tehran, Iran.
  • The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting held between Joseph Stalin, Franklin D.
  • Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin agreed on Operation Overlord and general war policy.
  • Roosevelt attempted to cope with Stalin's onslaught of demands, but was able to do little except appease him.
  • From left to right: Joseph Stalin, Franklin D.

• The USSR

  • Initially, Lenin was to be replaced by a "troika" ("collective leadership") consisting of Grigory Zinoviev of the Ukrainian SSR, Lev Kamenev of the Russian SFSR, and Joseph Stalin of the Transcaucasian SFSR.
  • Lenin had appointed Stalin the head of the Workers' and Peasants' Inspectorate, which gave Stalin considerable power.
  • Numerous towns, villages and cities were renamed after the Soviet leader (see List of places named after Stalin) and the Stalin Prize and Stalin Peace Prize were named in his honor.
  • In late November of the same year, unable to coerce the Republic of Finland by diplomatic means into moving its border 16 miles back from Leningrad, Joseph Stalin ordered the invasion of Finland.
  • Stalin depicted in the style of Socialist Realism.

• Origins of the Cold War

  • Subsequent Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, who viewed the Soviet Union as a "socialist island," stated that the Soviet Union must see that "the present capitalist encirclement is replaced by a socialist encirclement."
  • As early as 1925, Stalin stated that he viewed international politics as a bipolar world in which the Soviet Union would attract countries gravitating to socialism and capitalist countries would attract states gravitating toward capitalism while the world was in a period of "temporary stabilization of capitalism" preceding its eventual collapse.
  • Stalin was determined to use the Red Army to gain control of Poland, to dominate the Balkans and to destroy utterly Germany's capacity to engage in another war. 
  • After the war, Stalin sought to secure the Soviet Union's western border by installing communist-dominated regimes under Soviet influence in bordering countries, called the Eastern Bloc.
  • President Harry Truman and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin at the Potsdam Conference, July 1945

• Roosevelt's Fourth Term

  • It was one of the major wartime meetings of Allies Powers and was led by Roosevelt, UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Union's General Secretary Joseph Stalin.
  • Stalin demanded a Soviet sphere of political influence in Eastern and Central Europe, an essential aspect of the USSR's national security strategy.
  • In March 1945, he sent strongly worded messages to Stalin accusing him of breaking his Yalta commitments over Poland, Germany, prisoners of war and other issues.
  • When Stalin accused the western Allies of plotting a separate peace with Hitler behind his back, Roosevelt replied: "I cannot avoid a feeling of bitter resentment towards your informers, whoever they are, for such vile misrepresentations of my actions or those of my trusted subordinates."

• The Cold War Begins

  • The Soviet-style regimes that arose in the satellite states not only reproduced Soviet command economies, but also adopted the brutal methods employed by Joseph Stalin and Soviet secret police to suppress real and potential opposition.
  • Stalin opposed the Marshall Plan.
  • Fearing American political, cultural and economic penetration, Stalin eventually forbade Soviet Eastern bloc countries from accepting Marshall Plan aid.
  • Stalin believed that economic integration with the West would allow Eastern Bloc countries to escape Soviet control, and that the US was trying to buy a pro-US re-alignment of Europe.
  • Shortly thereafter, Stalin instituted the Berlin Blockade (24 June 1948 – 12 May 1949), one of the first major crises of the Cold War, preventing food, materials and supplies from arriving in West Berlin.