Joseph Stalin

Examples of Joseph Stalin in the following topics:

• 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.

• 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.

• 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."

• Japanese Aggression

  • Joseph Stalin ordered to develop a plan for a counter-strike against the Japanese, which resulted in massive Japanese losses.
  • Joseph Stalin ordered a counterstrike, and the use of superior artillery, armor, and air forces nearly annihilated the Japanese forces.

• A Grinding War Against Iran

  • Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and General Secretary Joseph Stalin reaffirmed their commitment to Iran's independence and territorial integrity, and they displayed a willingness to extend economic assistance to Iran.
  • During the three years of occupation in Iran, Stalin had expanded Soviet political influence in Azerbaijan and the Kurdish area in northwestern Iran, founding the communist Tudeh Party of Iran.

• 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.

• The Defeat of Japan

  • The participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States, represented by Josef Stalin, Winston Churchill (who was later replaced by Clement Attlee when the Labor Party won the British elections), and Harry S.
  • The three powers were represented by Communist Party General Secretary Joseph Stalin, Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and, later, Clement Attlee, and President Harry S.
  • In the photo:  Stalin, Truman, and Attlee at Potsdam.

• Conclusion: Truman and the Beginning of the Cold War

  • Joseph Stalin "planned, prepared, and initiated" the invasion, creating "detailed [war] plans" that were communicated to the North Koreans.
  • To Stalin's surprise, the UN Security Council backed the defense of South Korea, though the Soviets were then boycotting meetings in protest that Taiwan and not Communist China held a permanent seat on the Council.
  • Even though the Chinese and North Koreans were exhausted by the war and were prepared to end it by late 1952, Stalin insisted that they continue fighting, and the Armistice was approved only in July 1953, after Stalin's death.