USSR in WWII (Essay)

USSR in WWII

The involvenment of USSR in world war II was very important because of their acts. Adolf Hitler had an aim with Poland and he knew that it wouldn’t easy to invade Poland so he signed a secretly non-agression pact with Stalin called the Nazi-Soviet Pact which stated that both countries Germany and USSR would not attack each other instead they will support each other and dividing up Poland. Also Stalin signed a non agresión pact with Japan on April 13 1941. Afterwards comes the first phase of WWII which was the German invasion of Poland in September 1 1939 and Great Britain and France declared war on Germany and on September 17 1939 USSR according with its secret plan with Germany invades Poland from the East.

Then Germany didnt followed the plan and invades the whole country. June 1941 Germany starts Operation Barbarossa which was the invasion to the Soviet Union and it was supposed to be finished in one single campaign.

 On September 15 1941 Germany started with the Siege of Leningrad and in that same month the US began supplying the USSR according to the Lend-Lease Act. Also in October Germany entered Moscow for the Soviet invasion but winter had already started making the Germans give up on December.

In 1943 Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt met in the Teheran Conference. They agreed that the Western Allies would invade France in June 1944.

USSR began to conquered many countries. In August USSR invaded Romania and the next month they invaded Bulgaria but Bulgaria was very smart and he made peace with USSR declaring war to Germany. In the next months USSR captured Estonia, Yugoslavia, Warsaw and Vienna.

On April 23, 1945, Soviet troops reached Berlin. The next days the Soviet troops advance from the East and met up with U.S. troops advancing from the west at the Elbe River. On April 30, when the Soviets were fighting on Berlin, Adolph Hitler killed himself. On May 2, 1945, Soviet troops captured of Berlin and all remaining German troops surrendered within a few days. The war in Europe was over.

Stalin broked the non agression pact with the Japanese and the Soviet troops invaded Manchuria and they helped win the war in the Pacific. With this USSR in WWII conclude that the people of the USSR suffered alot and over 20 million men and women were killed although the Soviet troops remain powerful at the end of the war. And the ambition of the Soviet Union created tension with other Allie. Cold War began.

Bibliography

World War II History. 2001. 10 de April de 2011 <http://www.worldwariihistory.info/in/USSR.html>.