What did Joesph Stalin do during world war 2 ?

Answer 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin

Answer 2

Joseph Stalin (alternatively transliterated Josef Stalin), was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until 1953.
After the failure of Soviet and Franco-British talks on a mutual defense pact in Moscow, Stalin began to negotiate a non-aggression pact with Hitler's Nazi Germany.
On September 1, 1939, the German invasion of Poland started World War II. Stalin decided to intervene, and on September 17 the Red Army entered eastern Poland and occupied the territory assigned to it by the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.
In November 1939, Stalin sent troops over the Finnish border provoking war.
On March 5, 1940, the Soviet leadership approved an order of execution for more than 25,700 Polish "nationalist, educators and counterrevolutionary" activists in the parts of the Ukraine and Belarus republics that had been annexed from Poland. This event has become known as the Katyn Massacre.
In June 1941, Hitler broke the pact and invaded the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa. Although expecting war with Germany, Stalin may not have expected an invasion to come so soon — and the Soviet Union was relatively unprepared for this invasion.
Hitler's experts had expected eight weeks of war, and early indications appeared to support their predictions. However, the invading German forces were eventually driven back in December 1941 near Moscow.


The Big Three: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Stalin at the Yalta Conference.Stalin met in several conferences with Churchill. In these conferences, his first appearances on the world stage, Stalin proved to be a formidable negotiator.

Answer 3

When the Germans invaded the USSR, he discovered that because of his bloody purges in the Red Army, his army was too weak to oppose the Germans. So he changed tack, and started a campaign of patriotism and "Mother Russia", even involving the Russian Orthodox church. He moved a large part of the Russian industry to Asia, but didn't run when the German Army appeared before the walls of Moscow. And he played a dangerous gamble : expecting that the Japanese wouldn't attack in Siberia, he moved the troops to the western front and started a counter-offensive that would go all the way to Berlin.

Like Churchill, the kind of ruthless strategist you want on your own side during a war, but who should be got rid off as soon as possible after the war.

Answer 4

a million. Kiev Rus possibly? 2. The distances were too huge; N's provide strains were too lengthy; he couldn't forage effectively, because the Russians were sizzling the earth; the Russian troops, notwithstanding no longer truly very sturdy or o.k. equipped, were dogged in protecting the soil of "mom Russia"; possibly the most useful branch of the Russian military replaced into the artillery -- which had the added earnings of being on the protective; the Russian iciness replaced into savage and the invaders frequently unprepared for it; a large element of his military replaced into made from unmotivated overseas troops; lots of his perfect generals were useless or previous their proper; he took Moscow, yet that city did not mean to Russia what Berlin did to Prussia or Vienna to Austria.... 3. After Nicholas II, Russia replaced into unprepared for any type of democracy, so the authoritarian bolsheviks (Communists) finally took over, less than Lenin (who the Germans had smuggled decrease back into Russia from exile contained in the desire that civil warfare ought to result, knocking Russia out of WWI -- and so it did)....

Answer 5

He was the leader of Communist Russia, an ally of the United States and Britain in WWII, a butcher of millions of his own people. Not a very nice guy.

Chow!!

Answer 6

He led the soviet union in its costly victory in world war II;