Confused about World War II?

Question

Was Stalin part of the Axis alliance or not? because i thought he was but then i see maps and things saying that the USSR was not part of the Axis and was part of the alliance in my research. Did he switch sides? If so how and when? Please help i need to do a midterm project on this.

Answer 1

Hitler and Stalin signed a non-Agression Pact in 1939, promising not to attack each other, divided Poland and allowed Stalin to takeover Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. Hitler broke the Pact when he attacked the USSR in mid june 1941. the world had been surprised by the Pact in 1939 between the world's two bitterest enemies. The Pact, however, was one of convenience for both Dictators. The Soviets had just eliminated most of their Generals and their armies were 'beheaded' so to speak. And it allowed Hitler to deal with France and Britain, without worrying about a two front-war.......thus the convenience for both sides.

Answer 2

Here's what happened. Shortly before the beginning of the war (1 September, 1939) Hitler signed a non-agression pact with Stalin--the idea being that then he could invade western Europe without having the USSR join in the war against him. (as an aside, this did much to discredit Stalinin the eyes o fsocialists in Western Europe and the US).

Apparently Stalin believed that Hitler would have his hands full conquering the Allies and so he would be safe from the Nazi's war machine. However, a couple of years later, Hitler grew overconfident and attacked Russia as well. That was probably the biggest error Hitler made--it committed Germany to a two-front war and undoubtedly hastened the fall of the Nazi Empire. Once

The USSR was never part of the "Axis--that consited of Italy, Japan, and Germany. But they weren't part of the Allies either until after the Nazi's invaded the USSR. Then they did join the Allies in fighting Hitler (not that Stalin had a chooice at that point!).

Hope that clears up the confusion.

Answer 3

Stalin was never really part of the Axis. Hitler and Stalin had signed a pact agreeing that they wouldn't attack each other, but Hitler decided that it would be prudent to attack the Soviets anyways. He proved to be wrong, and his decision to do so can be argued as what lost him the war. Opening a third front in Russia, of all places (attacking Russia was Napleon's downfall too), was not a smart thing to do. The Soviets were most certainly an Allied nation, and we sent them all kinds of war material--tanks, planes--everything to use against the Germans. In the very late days of the war, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan as well. However, they were never really close allies. Britain and the US were close, and Russia was sometimes regarded suspiciously. After the war had ended, both the Russians and the the Americans got into a sort of race to see who could uncover the research of the Japanese and the Nazis the fastest--both had some seriously advanced stuff in the works. After that, things got even more uneasy and we got into the Cold War, but that's another story. . .

Answer 4

Hitler and Stalin had signed a nonaggression pact called the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact on August 23rd, 1939 (I'm not exactly sure on the year for that one but I think it's 1939) which basically meant neither would invade each other and they were on the same side so to speak. Russia was also promised land at the end of the war, the eastern part of poland which was a big deal to Russia since it used to be part of Russia along with Lithuania, Estonia and other countries (I can't remember all of them).On June 22nd, 1941 Hitler invaded Russia(the invasion was called operation Barbarossa), but never made it to Moscow due to the fact that it was an extremely harsh winter. When he invaded he broke the non aggression pact which caused Russia to turn to the allied powers, mainly because Russia was really caught off guard by the invasion, I believe that Russia was planning an invasion of Germany but I can't remember much about that. Hope that helped!

Answer 5

Stalin was only a part of the alliance. He fought mainly Germany, as did the English, Canadians French, and the USA. He never switched sides. Stalin was prime minister of Communist Russia before and after the war. It was after WWII when the cold war with Stalin and communism began trying to control the world...the two are completely separate.

The USA fought mainly against Japan along with the Canadians and some Britts.

Answer 6

Stalin can be considered to be part of the Axis from 1939 to 1941.

At first Stalin signed a Pact (Molotov -Ribbentrop) with Hitler on September 1939 dividing among themselves Poland and practically handing over to Russia, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.

But later on these two buddies turned against each other when Hitler surprisingly attacked Russia the 22 of June 1941.
It was from then on that Russia became part of the Allies against Hitler.

Answer 7

No Russia never joined the Axis powers, for Hitler attacked Russia, and Russia is the reason Germany lost the war, with contributions from England and the United States

Answer 8

You are confusing the Axis Powers (Germany, Italy and Japan) with the Alliance (USA, England, Russia, and others)

Germany was fighting a war on two fronts. He had the Americans/Brits and other westerners on his Western front and he had the Soviets kicking his behind on the eastern front.

The Soviets may not have been involved with the USA and England in planning strategy and tactics, but they were fighting our common enemy. They were never particularly "friendly" to us.

You have much research yet to do, young one.

Answer 9

Stalin and the Russians were our friends in World War II fighting Nazism. Communism and Nazism are different. It is like when we backed Castro against Batista in Cuba. Sometimes our friends turn out to be our enemies. In Viet Nam we really didn't know who was a friend or an enemy. We have the same problem in the modern day wars in the Middle East.

Answer 10

Stalin/Russia at first signed a non-agression pact with Hitler, because hitler wanted to go into Poland. Hitler then proceeded to keep going into Russia, which didn't set well with Stalin, for some reason. So Stalin and Russia joined the Allies.