Joseph Stalin Biography and Timeline — Page 15

UN Charter Enters Into Force

The United Nations formally began on 24 October with the Soviet Union among its original members.

Ukraine And Belarus Membership Agreed

The Yalta leaders agreed to support original United Nations membership for Ukraine and Byelorussia.

Yalta Conference Discusses United Nations

Stalin met Roosevelt and Churchill at Yalta to settle key issues concerning the proposed world organization.

Rule of Kurile Islands

Russia will gain the Kurile Islands & Sakhalin if it holds Japan on the Asian mainland

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1922-1953

Rule of Sakhalin

Russia will gain the Kurile Islands & Sakhalin if it holds Japan on the Asian mainland

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1922-1953

Independence of Russia

Russia, Britain, the USA & France recognize Austria with its 1937 boundaries

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953

Speech

Makes an "electoral speech" attacking leading intellectuals

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953

Visit to Moscow

Marshal Tito is personally received by Stalin during his visit to Moscow

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953

US Secretary of State Burns protests about how Russia has stripped assets

US Secretary of State Burns protests about how Russia has stripped assets from Hungary

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953

CIB

Orders the launch the Communist Information Bureau in response to the Marshall Plan

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953

Nuclear Power

Soviet scientists achieve their first nuclear chain reaction

Censorship

Any favarouble references to the Tsars are removed from school text books

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953

Constitution of Russia

Founds the Council of Minister's

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953

Council of Minister's

Replaces the Council of Peoples Commissars as the Government of Russia. Founds the Council of Minister's. Commissars become ministers

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953

Cult of Individual

A cult of Stalin begins

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953

Economy of Russia

The 4th Five-Year Plan (1946-1950) drastically improves the standard of living for the common citizen from a very low level

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953

Five Year Plan

The 4th Five-Year Plan (1946-1950) drastically improves the standard of living for the common citizen from a very low level

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953

Rebellion of Rebels in Moscow

Stalin orders Beria to "finish off the outlaws in the shortest possible time"

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953

Rebellion of Rebels in Ukraine

About 8,000 anti-communist partisans are killed in the Ukraine

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953

Socialist Unity Party

Ensures dominance of East Germany by supporting the Socialist Unity Party

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953

Rebellion of Rebels in Moscow

Stalin orders Beria to "finish off the outlaws in the shortest possible time"

Role range: 1917-1918

Rebellion of Rebels in Ukraine

About 8,000 anti-communist partisans are killed in the Ukraine

Role range: 1917-1918

Rebellion of Rebels in Moscow

Stalin orders Beria to "finish off the outlaws in the shortest possible time"

Role range: 1922-1953

Moscow Debates Atomic Energy Control

Stalin's government engaged in United Nations discussions about international control of atomic energy.

Soviet Delegates Debate Iran Crisis

The Soviet Union faced United Nations discussions concerning troop withdrawals and the crisis in Iran.

Soviet Veto Shapes Security Council

Soviet use of the veto demonstrated the practical influence of permanent member voting rights.

Soviets Participate General Assembly

Stalin's government sent representatives to the first meetings of the United Nations General Assembly.

Rule of Poland

The Polish elections, held on January 16, 1947, resulted in Polands official transformation to a communist state by 1949

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953

Polish Election and Yalta Commitments

Poland holds elections under a Soviet-dominated political system, intensifying Western claims that Yalta's free-election commitments were not fulfilled.

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953

Famine

Famine in the Ukraine, 1946-1947

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953

Conference of Big Four

Russia demands $10 billion in reparations & control of the Ruhr, this is not agreed. A conference opens in Moscow to discuss the development of post-war Germany

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953

Berlin Land Routes Blocked

Soviet restrictions close major land routes into the Western sectors of Berlin.

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953

Blockade of Berlin

The Russians blockade land routes to Berlin

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953

Plan-Marshall Plan

Forces the Eastern block & Russia to reject the Marshall plan

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1947-1949

Cominform

Cominform (from Communist Information Bureau) is the common name for what is officially referred to as the Information Bureau of the Communist and Workers' Parties

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953

Cominform

The Cominform has as its stated goal. "..to organize an exchange of experience, and where necessary to coordinate the activity of the Communist parties, on the basis of mutual agreement."

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953

Cominform

The Cominform has its own newspaper, For Lasting Peace, for People's Democracy!

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953

Cominform

The Cominform is based on the Comintern which was dissolved in 1942, it co-ordinates European Communist Parties

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953

Cominform

The Cominform the first official forum of the International Communist Movement since the dissolution of the Comintern and confirmed the new realities after World War II, including the creation of an Eastern Bloc

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953

Information Bureau of the Communist and Workers' Partie

Cominform (from Communist Information Bureau) is the common name for what is officially referred to as the Information Bureau of the Communist and Workers' Parties

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953