Operation Barbarossa

Even though The Soviet Union turned from a rural farming country to an industrialized power house in just a matter of years, Stalin’s plans were more harmful than helpful to the Soviet Union because of the famine he caused, and the millions that died because of his actions. Joseph Stalin was one of the leaders of the Bolsheviks or communist party that took control of Russia on October 24, 1917. During the Russian Revolution, he was a general who fought in major battles in the Russian Civil War…

Is there truly justice for Genocide? Throughout the course of history, many brutal atrocities have been committed, on a genocidal scale. Some of these have resulted in court cases and punishments for the perpetrators, though many have not. Reparations, even enormous ones, do not repay the families of the murdered. This can be exemplified with the genocide of the Poles in the Katyn Woods, and the Armenian Genocide. One happened in the midst of World War II, and has been largely ignored by the…

What was the Iron Curtain The term Iron Curtain became widely known during the cold war and was used to define the geopolitical, military, physical and ideological boundary that separated states that were members of the Warsaw Pact in Eastern Europe (Eastern Bloc) and those that were not, otherwise called The West. This boundary separated the two areas from World War II to the end of cold war and it represented the Soviet Union’s attempt to shield itself and allies from direct contact with…

mandate of South West Africa (which also fell under Class C mandates). Class C mandates need to be ruled totally by another nation into the distant future. New Guinea was an Australian mandate, Nauru was a British mandate and Western Samoa was a New Zealand. All Class C mandates were exploited for raw material and farm products. The Great Depression and threats to international peace and collective security What were the economic and political effects of the Great Depression? The economic…

Of the many years covered in class, the most politically influential, physically and economically devastating, and unprecedented events fall between the years 1939, with the invasion of Poland, to 1949, with the end of the Berlin Blockade and the beginning of a long Cold War that would shape Europe for decades to come. The events of World War II were unprecedented in the style of warfare as well as the number of lives taken. The political allegiances built during these years would have lasting…

“The German Question”: Fragile Decisions After the Two World Wars Both World War I and World War II presented the victors with the same dilemma: how to keep the German power in balance with other nations around the world. However, the foreign decisions after both wars severely hampered the ability to answer “The German Question”. Because the Treaty of Versailles answered “The German Question” by demoting Germany’s economic status, the resolution led to another war. World War II concluded with…

At first they are allies which symbolizes the Nazi-USSR pact which was a treaty of non-aggression between Germany and the USSR. But they later become enemies in the Battle of the Windmill, which symbolizes the eastern front or the so called Operation Barbarossa which was Nazi Germany’s invasion strategy against…

important because Soviet Union had to protect itself from the attack. German attacked Soviet Union, so Soviet Union must attacked back. According to Earl F. Ziemke, he says, "On December 18, 1940, Hitler signed Führer Directive No. 21, subtitled " Operation Barbarossa. The directive, which was based on the work of several planning groups, was the strategic outline for a campaign against the Soviet Union." (Earl F. Ziemke). This quotation shows German's attack to Soviet Union is a long time plan.…

Throughout his reign as head of the Third Reich, Hitler promoted a nationalist and a German supremacist attitude for his government. During World War II, these attitudes carried over to Hitler’s military strategy in the form of Lebensraum, the belief that the German race required an addition of geographic in order to survive. Due to this perceived need for conquest, Hitler evoked the image of Volkstumkampf, the belief that Germany was involved in an ethnical war to preserve the superiority of…

Claus von Stauffenberg was conceived in Jettingen, on fifteenth November, 1907. His dad was Privy Chamberlain to the King of Bavaria, and his mom was granddaughter of the Prussian general August Wilhelm Anton Graf von Gneisenau (1760-1831). As a young fellow he was an individual from the Hitler Youth. A brilliant understudy, at nineteen he turned into an officer cadet. Alan Bullock, the creator of Hitler: A Study in Tyranny (1962) has contended: "He (Claus von Stauffenberg) was a splendid…