HISTORY
THE WORLD BETWEEN THE WARS
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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He passed a law to make all males with land to join
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He took over other army’s and made them join his
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He tried taking full control and whoever disagreed he had them slayed in order to take full control
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He made peace with other countries and took their army
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Detailed explanation-1: -Stalin wanted Eastern Europe under his thumb both as a defense buffer to protect the Soviet motherland and to expand socialism, the communist economic system. He believed that “scientific laws” of history determined that the world would eventually become socialist.
Detailed explanation-2: -Stalin gained power in the USSR by using his position as party general secretary to gain control of the Communist Party and kept it by ousting his opponents, including the original Bolshevik elites that first installed communism in Russia.
Detailed explanation-3: -On Stalin’s orders, the Soviet Union launched a counter-attack on Nazi Germany, which finally succeeded in 1945. Stalin died in March 1953 and his death triggered a power struggle in which Nikita Khrushchev after several years emerged victorious against Georgy Malenkov.
Detailed explanation-4: -Under Stalin, the Soviet Union was transformed from a peasant society into an industrial and military superpower. However, he ruled by terror, and millions of his own citizens died during his brutal reign.