Siege of Warsaw
Stalin allows the Nazis to crush the Warsaw rebellion so he can occupy a weaker Poland
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1922-1953
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Joseph Stalin Biography and Timeline — Page 13
Follow Joseph Stalin through 675 dated historical records for Russia.
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1944
1945
Accepts Argonaut Conference Code Name
Accepts the Allied code name Argonaut for the forthcoming Malta and Yalta conference arrangements.
Role range: 1939-1945
Invasion of Poland
Russian troops cross the Polish border
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1922-1953
Discusses France with Roosevelt
Discusses France's postwar role with Roosevelt during their first bilateral Yalta meeting.
Role range: 1939-1945
Soviet Position at Yalta
Represents the Soviet Union in the opening Yalta discussions with Roosevelt and Churchill.
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1922-1953
Presses German Reparations Question
Presses the Allies to settle principles for extracting reparations from defeated Germany.
Role range: 1939-1945
Defends Curzon Line
Stalin argues that the Curzon Line was devised by non-Russian Allied statesmen on ethnographic grounds and says he cannot retreat substantially from it.
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1941-1953
Requests Soviet UN Assembly Votes
Requests separate United Nations representation for several Soviet republics during the fourth plenary session.
Role range: 1939-1945
Accepts Two Soviet Republic UN Seats
Accepts a compromise under which Ukraine and Byelorussia will be supported for separate United Nations membership.
Role range: 1939-1945
States Conditions for War against Japan
Discusses political conditions under which the Soviet Union would enter the war against Japan.
Role range: 1939-1945
Proposes Amendments on Poland
Presents Soviet amendments to the American proposal on the composition of the Polish government.
Role range: 1939-1945
Accepts Polish Government Formula
Agrees to a formula for reorganizing the Soviet-backed Polish provisional government on a broader basis.
Role range: 1939-1945
Drafts Political Terms for Japan Entry
Drafts conditions concerning Mongolia, Sakhalin, Port Arthur, Dairen and Manchurian railways for Soviet entry against Japan.
Role range: 1939-1945
Approves Periodic Foreign Ministers Consultation
Agrees to regular meetings of the three foreign ministers, beginning with a session in London.
Role range: 1939-1945
Far Eastern Yalta Terms
Secures Allied agreement to Soviet interests in southern Sakhalin, the Kurile Islands, Port Arthur and Manchurian railways.
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1922-1953
Raises Iranian Oil at Final Luncheon
Raises the subject of Iranian oil during the final tripartite luncheon.
Role range: 1939-1945
Signs Agreement to Enter War against Japan
Agrees that the Soviet Union will enter the war against Japan after Germany's defeat under specified Far Eastern conditions.
Role range: 1939-1945
Signs German Reparations Protocol
Signs the reparations protocol calling for German payments in kind to Allied countries.
Role range: 1939-1945
Arrest of Sixteen Polish Leaders
Soviet security authorities arrest sixteen Polish underground leaders invited to talks on implementing the Yalta political settlement.
Role range: 1922-1953
Lublin Committee
Churchill argued to Roosevelt that it was "as plain as a pike staff" that Moscows tactics were to drag out the period for holding free elections "while the Lublin Committee consolidate their power."
Role range: 1922-1953
Lublin Committee
The Soviet Peoples Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) arrested 16 Polish opposition political leaders that had been invited to participate in provisional Government negotiations.
Role range: 1922-1953
Lublin Committee
The arrests were part of a trick employed by the NKVD, which flew the leaders to Moscow for a later show trial followed by sentencing to a gulag.
Role range: 1922-1953
Trial of the Sixteen
The Polish Government Delegates, together with most members of the Council of National Unity and the Commander-in-chief of the Armia Krajowa, were invited by Soviet general Ivan Serov with the agreement of Joseph Stalin to a conference on their eventual entry to the Soviet-backed Provisional Government. They are presented with a warrant of safety, but are arrested in Pruszkow by the NKVD on 27 and 28 March
Role range: 1922-1953
Denounces the neutrality pact with Japan signed Thirteenth April
Denounces the neutrality pact with Japan signed Thirteenth April
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1922-1953
Neutrality
Denounces the neutrality pact with Japan signed Thirteenth April
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1922-1953
Capture of Vienna
Soviet forces take Vienna
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1922-1953
Government
Russia establishes a provisional coaltion Government with Renner as Prime Minister
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1922-1953
Capture of Berlin
Russian troops reach the suburbs of Berlin
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1922-1953
Soviet Treaty with Polish Provisional Government
Signs a Soviet treaty with the Polish provisional government as disputes continue over implementation of the Yalta settlement.
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1922-1953
Battle of Berlin
1st day of the Battle of Berlin with 1,000,000 plus Russians against 60,000 Germans
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1922-1953
Battle of Berlin
The US & Russian troops meet at the River Elbe
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1922-1953
Invasion of Germany
American & Russian troops link forces at the River Elbe
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1922-1953
Battle of Berlin
300,000 Russian soldiers are killed
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1922-1953
Churchill appeals to Stalin not to unilaterally impose Russian rule on Yugoslavia
Churchill appeals to Stalin not to unilaterally impose Russian rule on Yugoslavia. Churchill appeals to Stalin not to unilaterally impose Russian rule on Poland
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Rule of Poland
Churchill appeals to Stalin not to unilaterally impose Russian rule on Poland
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Capture of Berlin
The Red Army hoists the Red Flag over the Reichstag in Berlin
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1922-1953
Red Army
The Red Army hoists the Red Flag over the Reichstag in Berlin
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1922-1953
Neutrality
Russia informs Japan it will not renew the Sovietese neutrality pact
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1922-1953
Russia informs Japan it will not renew the Sovietese neutrality pact
Russia informs Japan it will not renew the Sovietese neutrality pact
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1922-1953
Capture of Berlin
Berlin surrenders to the Soviet Army
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1941-1945
Records, sources and methodology
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