Who was the head leader of Russia during World War 2?
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Josef Stalin.... who was the leader of the Soviet Union from mid-1920s to his death in 1953 and General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922-1953), a position which had later become that of party leader.\n\nA hard-won victory in World War II (the Great Patriotic War, 1941–45), for which the Soviet Union was arguably unprepared, was made possible in part through the capacity for production that was the outcome of industrialization, as well as significant Lend-Lease gifts, primarily by the United States. In the postwar years, Stalin laid the groundwork for the formation of the Warsaw Pact and established the USSR as one of the two major world powers, a position it maintained for nearly four decades following his death in 1953.
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Hitler tried to invade Russia.\n\nDo you know why he failed?\n\nCause back then, they didn't have anti-freeze, and the tanks FROZE.\n\nPoor sorry sacks had to walk it back to Germany.\n\nLoL!
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Georgy (Georgii) Maximilianovich Malenkov (Russian: Гео́ргий Максимилиа́нович Маленко́в, his first name then surname pronounced "GHYOR-ghee mah-leen-KOF"; January 8 [O.S. December 26, 1901] 1902 – January 14, 1988) was a Soviet politician, Communist Party leader and close collaborator of Joseph Stalin. He briefly became leader of the Soviet Union (from March to September 1953) after Stalin's death and was Premier of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1955.
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World War II, also, The Second World War, or WWII, was the global military conflict that took place between 1939 and 1945. World War II was the largest and deadliest war in history.\n\nThe war began between Germany and the Allies. Germany was later joined by Italy, Japan, and others, jointly known as the Axis. The Allies at first were made up of Poland, the British Commonwealth, France, and others. In June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union, and in December, Japan attacked the United States. China, which had been at war with Japan since the mid-1930s, also joined the Allies, as eventually did a number of other countries.\n\nItaly surrendered in September 1943, Germany in May 1945. The surrender of Japan marked the end of the war, on September 2, 1945.\n\nIt is possible that up to 62 million people died in the war; estimates vary greatly. Most were civilians who died as a result of disease, starvation, genocide, and the aerial bombing of cities. Estimates place deaths in the Soviet Union at around 23 million, while China suffered about 10 million. Poland suffered the most deaths in proportion to its population of any country, losing approximately 5.6 million out of a pre-war population of 34.8 million (16%).\n\nThe war was responsible for the re-drawing of national boundaries and the creation of new nations, the end of western colonialism, and the beginning of the Cold War. [1]\n\nAfter World War II, Europe was informally split into western and Soviet spheres of influence. Western Europe largely aligned as NATO, and Eastern Europe largely as the Warsaw pact. There was a fundamental shift in power from Western Europe and the British Empire to the new superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union.\n\nIn Asia, the United States' military occupation of Japan led to Japan's democratization. China's civil war continued through and after the war, resulting eventually in the establishment of the People's Republic of China. The former colonies of the European powers began their road to independence.\n\nKey alliances are formed\nOn September 1, the German invasion of Poland began World War II. Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand all declared war on Germany on September 3. Nepal, Newfoundland, Tonga, South Africa and Canada followed suit within days. On September 17, the Soviets invaded Poland from the East. The following year, the USSR annexed the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) together with parts of Romania, and attacked Finland. The German-Soviet agreement was brought to an end by the German invasion of the USSR on June 22, 1941.\n\nThe United States of America joined the Allies following the attack on Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941. The Declaration by United Nations, on January 1, 1942, officially united 26 nations as Allies. (The Declaration also formed the basis for the United Nations.) The informal Big 3 alliance of the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and the United States emerged in the latter half of the war, and their decisions determined Allied strategy around the world.\n\n\nDates of joining Allies\n Poland: 1939, 1 September \n United Kingdom: 1939, 3 September \n Australia: 1939, 3 September \n New Zealand: 1939, 3 September \n France: 1939, 3 September \n Nepal: 1939, 4 September \n Newfoundland: 1939, 4 September \n Tonga: 1939, 4 September \n South Africa: 1939, 6 September \n Canada: 1939, 10 September \n Denmark: 1940, 9 April \n Norway: 1940, 9 April \n Belgium: 1940, 10 May \n Luxembourg: 1940, 10 May \n Netherlands: 1940, 10 May \n Free France: 1940, 18 June \n Greece: 1940, 28 October \n Kingdom of Yugoslavia: 1941, 6 April \n Soviet Union: 1941, 22 June \n Tannu Tuva: 1941, 25 June until 1944, 11 October \n Panama: 1941, 7 December \n Philippines: 1941, 7 December \n Costa Rica: 1941, 8 December \n Dominican Republic: 1941, 8 December \n El Salvador: 1941, 8 December \n Haiti: 1941, 8 December \n Honduras: 1941, 8 December \n Nicaragua: 1941, 8 December \n United
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I am nominating Winston Churchill as the best leader in history. He got his country through the war and started the built-up after the war. A winning country in a war (if that exists at all) is always lagging behind economically afterwards and he could not avoid that but I think a great leader is also there to unite the people of a country and he did that very well. \n\nAs for the worst leader I was doubting between Hitler and Stalin. Not only did they kill an enourmous amount of people, either by war or by torture and execution. They got the countries at war with the rest of the world basically. Besides that they left their country and its people in a deplorable state, from which I think Russia is still recovering.
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Hitler's decision to invade The Soviet Union was a huge gamble, and one that he soon lost.  Russia had three things going for it: (1) vast expanses of land, (2) freezing winters, and (3) a huge horde of cannon fodder to throw at the advancing Germans.  Also, the gauge of the Russian railway system was different from that in the West, and the Wehrmacht was unable to easily transport troops by rail. Hitler had learned nothing from Napoleon, and his armies suffered the same fate.  Delayed for a month while Hitler sought revenge in the Balkans, by winter the German troops found themselves up against -20 degree cold wearing nothing but their thin summer uniforms. In the beginning, German invaders were welcomed by the Russian populace as liberators from the yoke of Stalinism, and Rusian peasants would set out little tables of bread and salt as a traditional sign of welcome, the but the atrocities committed by the Germans soon turned popular opinion against them.  Russian peasants took to burying their food and leaving nothing for the Germans to live on; whole factories were dismantled and shipped hundreds of miles east to the Urals.  In the end the German supply lines were overextended, and the counterattacks in and around Stalingrad by a defender determined to save the Motherland broke the back of the German Sixth Army and marked the beginning of the end of Hitler's grand plans. Russia would have been much more hard-pressed than it was without American aid and the fact that the Allies kept so many German divisions pinned down on the Western Front. Stalingrad is generally recognized as a turning point in the war. The German defeat deprived Hitler of sorely needed oil from the Caucasus region as well as the loss of over 600,000 troops and huge amounts of materiel; after Stalingrad the Germans were never able to mount a successful offensive; the tank battle at Kursk was the largest tank battle in history and another stunning defeat for the Gemans. But even with all these losses on the Eastern Front, the eventual defeat of Nazi Germany was a combined allied effort in which backward Russia probably paid by far the biggest price.
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Alexander Kerensky. Hijacked Russian revolution. Set Russia back 80 years. He was a moderate, and would have allowed democracy to develop in a country where democracy had never flourished.
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Audie L. Murphy \nIn ww2
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World War II, also, The Second World War, or WWII, was the global military conflict that took place between 1939 and 1945. World War II was the largest and deadliest war in history.\n\nThe war began between Germany and the Allies. Germany was later joined by Italy, Japan, and others, jointly known as the Axis. The Allies at first were made up of Poland, the United Kingdom, France, and others. In June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union, and in December, Japan attacked the United States. China, which had been at war with Japan since the mid-1930s, also joined the Allies, as eventually did a number of other countries.\n\nItaly surrendered to and then joined the Allies in late 1943. Germany surrendered to the Allies in May of 1945. The war ended on 2 September 1945 with the formal surrender of Japan.\n\nApproximately 62 million people died in the war. Most were civilians, as a result of the large-scale aerial bombing of cities, disease, starvation, and genocide (see the Holocaust). It is guessed that the Soviet Union suffered around 23 million deaths, and that China suffered about 10 million. Poland suffered the most deaths in proportion to its population of any country, losing 5.6 million out of a pre-war population of 34.8 million.\n\nThe war was responsible for the re-drawing of national boundaries and the creation of new nations, the end of western colonialism, and the beginning of the Cold War. [1]\n\nAfter World War II, Europe was informally partitioned into Western and Soviet spheres of influence. Western Europe largely aligned as NATO, and Eastern Europe largely as the Warsaw pact. There was a fundamental shift in power from Western Europe and the British Empire to the new superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, with significant boundary changes and displacement of people as the Soviet Union's borders shifted westwards.\n\nIn Asia, the United States' military occupation of Japan led to Japan's democratization. China's civil war continued through and after the war, resulting eventually in the establishment of the People's Republic of China. The former colonies of the European powers, such as India, Indonesia, and Vietnam, began their road to independence.\n\nFinally, the war saw a number of newly developed weapons that were used against either military and civilian targets. Atomic weapons, long range missiles, jet aircraft, and radar, are only a few of many wartime inventions that changed the nature of future conflict.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WW_2
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I actually know what you are talking about, this concerns the agreement at Munich in 1938 and the subsequent violation of the agreement by Germany when they invaded and occupied Czechoslavakia in 1939.\n\nPrior to the agreement, France and Soviet Russia had an agreement to militarily guarantee Czech independence. When Hitler began his demands for the Sudetenland and Czechs refused, Stalin had offered to honor the agreement and send the Red Army into Czechoslavakia. Instead, Britain and France reached an agreement with Hitler (brokered by Mussolini) without consulting either Czechoslavakia or Soviet Russia.\n\nFirst, the idea was that the plebiscites in the early 1920's that re-drew the map of Eastern Europe had been fundamentally flawed; all agreed that votes had been held only in areas likely to vote against Austria and Germany, the Sudetenland had been instead mixed in with the Czechs and the Bohemians. Second, because of what was going on in the Spanish Civil War (where the Russians were actually killing more good buy Spaniards than Fascist Spaniards) it was believed that if the Soviets entered Czechoslavakia they would never leave and besides the Nazis hated Socialists while the Soviets hated Capitalists. Third, since all of France's east European allies had signed non-aggression treaties with Germany, France and Britian felt they would not be able to reach the Czechs until they had been obliterated by the Germans and Soviets anyways.\n\nYes, there is every indication that, without the Skodja Works in Czechoslavakia, Germany would not have been strong enough to have fought the Czech, Soviet, French and British armies in 1938 and Hitler would have had to have seen the logic of backing down and accepting humiliation. If he had, there are indications that the German Army high command, under General Beck, would have staged a coup and arrested Hitler and his Nazis, then negotiated a peace.\n\nThis would, of course, then have left Stalin in control of both Spain and Czechoslavakia, while Germany was substantially weakened, leaving the door open to the Red Army. The Second World War would have still happened, but it would have eventually been Britain and France crossing the Somme to try to kick Russia out of central Europe.
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World War II, also WWII, or the Second World War, was a global military conflict that took place in 1939–1945. It was the largest and deadliest war in history, culminating in the Holocaust and the dropping of the atom bomb.
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The collapse of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics radically changed the world's economic and political environment. No other conflict of interest dominated the post World War Two world like the cold war did. One man is credited with ending the cold war, Mikhail Gorbachev. This however was not the biggest event Gorbachev was responsible for. The end of the cold war was just a by-product of the other major event he was involved with. That is the fall of communism in the USSR and the collapse of the USSR itself.\n\nGorbachev a communist reformer was appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1985. His appointment followed the death of three previous Soviet leaders in three years. Leonid Brezhnev was first to go followed by Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko. Not being able to afford another short term leader the old guard appointed the youthful 56 year old Mikhial Gorbachev as General Secretary.\n\nFrom the outside it seemed as if this great superpower self destructed in only three months. The USSR's demise is of course more complicated than this. The break up of the USSR can be traced back to Gorbachevs appointment and his early reforms. Gorbachev introduced a wide ranging program of reform. His major reforms were glasnost, perestroika and democratisation. These reforms allowed the problems of the USSR to be uncovered and become public knowledge.
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Nikita Kruschev\n\nSoldier for USSR during WW2\nSoviet Premiere after Stalin
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Stalin's post-war aims was to secure the immediate security needs of the USSR and to establish a base for recovery after the terrible damages of World War II. The war had cost over 20 million Soviet lives and destroyed a large proportion of Soviet industry and Stalin was determined that the Soviet Union be repaid in strategic influence and territory what his country had given in blood. He was especially keen to create a buffer zone of friendly states in Eastern Europe to protect the USSR from further attack from the West. This was to include the Baltic States, Poland, Hungery, Yugoslavia and Romania.\n\nChurchill's main strategy was to ensure the continuation of British-American wartime cooperation which he viewed as vital to mainting British influence on the world. As a keen colonialist, he was also concerned with keeping possesion of British overseas territories, despite increasing stirrings for independence in the immediate post-war period. He was keen to counter the rise of the USSR, particularly it's growing influence in Eastern Europe.\n\nRoosevelt wanted to adopt a modified form of Woodrow Wilson's idealist international vision. He acted early towards creating a United Nations to guarentee collective security, but one that was based on the principles of power politics (in the form of a Security Council). He was keen to try and maintain the wartime alliance as he viewed this as the main avenue for peace being preserved, but scholars differed over how much he trusted Stalin and was willing to accomodate him.
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Vladimir Filippivanovich Putin
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Nicholas II was the last Tsar.
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World war 2. Around 1938. Time of hitler coming to power.