What was Hitler’s agreement with Stalin?
It is also known as the Nazi-Soviet Pact, or the Hitler-Stalin Pact. The diplomatic arrangement included a 10-year non-aggression pact between Germany and the Soviet Union. It also included provisions for economic cooperation and territorial expansion. The German-Soviet Pact prepared the way for World War II.
How did the Russians treat the Germans after WW2?
Soviet authorities deported German civilians from Germany and Eastern Europe to the USSR after World War II as forced laborers, while ethnic Germans living in the USSR were deported during World War II and conscripted for forced labor.
How did Stalin respond to Hitler’s invasion?
When a German soldier defected on June 21 and declared that an attack would come the following morning, Stalin at last awoke from his slumber, ordering border troops to maintain full combat readiness and to camouflage airfields.
Why was Stalingrad so important to Stalin?
Stalingrad was strategically important to both sides as a major industrial and transport hub on the Volga River. Whoever controlled Stalingrad would have access to the oil fields of the Caucasus and would gain control of the Volga.
What promise did Stalin break after WWII?
Answer and Explanation: The promise Stalin broke at the Yalta Conference was the agreement over free elections in Central and Eastern Europe and their right to democratic governments, most specifically in regards to Poland.
Did Russia help Germany in ww2?
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What was Hitler’s plan with the Soviet Union?
Germany planned to colonize western parts of the Soviet Union, especially the resource-rich lands of the Ukraine, as it had colonized the Warthegau in Poland. This would involve expelling the supposedly inferior “races” of Slavs and Jews who lived there and settling ethnic Germans in their place.
What was Hitler’s hope for the Soviet Union?
Hitler had always wanted to see Germany expand eastwards to gain Lebensraum or ‘living space’ for its people. After the fall of France Hitler ordered plans to be drawn up for an invasion of the Soviet Union. He intended to destroy what he saw as Stalin’s ‘Jewish Bolshevist’ regime and establish Nazi hegemony.
Why did Stalin make a pact with Germany?
With Europe on the brink of another major war, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin viewed the pact as a way to keep his nation on peaceful terms with Germany, while giving him time to build up the Soviet military. German chancellor Adolf Hitler used the pact to make sure Germany was able to invade Poland unopposed.
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