1. The Soviet Union in World War II, Part III

2. The Anti-Hitler Coalition 1941 July 12, Moscow: Soviet-British agreement on joint actions in war with Germany August 14: US and Britain sign the Atlantic Charter, USSR joins on Sept. 24 Aug. 29 – Oct. 1: Moscow Conference of Foreign Ministers of USSR, USA, Britain Dec. 7, 1941: Japan attacks the US; Germany declares war on the US By the end of the year, the Coalition grows to 26 states

3. 1942 Start of the American Lend Lease Program Jan. 1: 26 states sign the Washington Declaration of the united Nations May 26: Soviet-British Treaty on Alliance June 11: Soviet-US Mutual Assistance Agreement 1943 July: The Allied invasion of Italy Nov. 28 – Dec 1: The first Big Three meeting in Tehran 1944 June: The Allied invasion of France July The United Nations Financial and Monetary Conference, Bretton Woods, New Hampshire

7. July 1942: Massive German offensive in southern Russia The city of Stalingrad is besieged The turning point of World War II August 23: Massive German bombing destroys 80% of the city’s residential buildings Fighting in the city: average life expectancy of the Soviet soldier – 24 hours

10. Stalingrad before the war

11. Stalingrad, September 1942

12. Women volunteers signing Oath of Allegiance

14. Red Army infantry counterattack at Stalingrad

16. Stalingrad worker militia

17. Soviet “Katyusha” rocket attack

18. Stalingrad: street fighting

19. Stalingrad: surrender of German Field Marshal von Paulus

23. The Battle of Stalingrad claimed over two million casualties, more than any other battle in human history, and was also one of the longest: it raged for 199 days. Killed, wounded or captured at Stalingrad:  Germans and allies: 850,000  Soviets: 1,130,000 (incl. 40,000 civilians)

24. General Georgiy Zhukov

25. General Aleksandr Vasilevsky

26. General Konstantin Rokossovsky

27. General Ivan Konev

29. July-August 1943: The Battle of Kursk  50 days  2.7 mln. men  8,000 tanks  5,000 aircraft Casualties:  German – 260,000  Soviet – over 1 mln. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awRhSozctvs

32. The Soviet Steamroller, documentary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2RV4 aKB7wo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2RV4 aKB7wo

36. Vitya Zhaivoronok, Soviet Army scout, Yugoslavia, 1945

37. Ruins of Peterhof, Summer residence of Russian Tsars

38. German POWs in Russia

39. German POWs outside Moscow

40. Diplomacy in the Grand Alliance The main issues: Helping USSR Opening the 2 nd front Postwar settlement

41. The Big Three: Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta, Feb.1945

43. Major decisions of the Yalta Conference 1. Unconditional surrender of Germany 2. Division of Germany into 4 occupied zones 3. Demilitarization and denazification of Germany 4. Germany’s reparations, including by forced labour of its soldiers 5. A new govt in Poland, including non-Communists 6. Changes of Poland’s borders 7. Return of citizens to USSR and Yugoslavia 8. Soviet Union will participate in the creation of the UNO 9. Stalin agreed to attack Japan within 90 days of Germany’s surrender. 10. Nazi war criminals were to be hunted down and brought to justice. 11. A "Committee on Dismemberment of Germany" was to be set up.

48. US and British aid to the Soviet ally, 1941-45:  Food - $1.5 bln. in  Automobiles – 427,000  Warplanes – 22,000  Tanks – 13,000  Warships – over 500  Explosives – 350,000 tons  Other supplies Total estimated cost of Allied aid to USSR in contemporary prices – $100 bln.

50. The Battle of Berlin 17 days 3.3 mln. men Total losses: 0.5 mln. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjD6Lxiu6q4

51. Hitler phones Stalin (a satire): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pbIrMtmU9 8&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pbIrMtmU9 8&feature=related

52. Red flag over Berlin, May 1945

55. Checking out Hitler’s headquarters, May 1945

59. Berlin, 1945: surrender of German High Command

60. Ovens in Buchenwald concentration camp

61. Survivors of a Nazi concentration camp

67. June 24, 1945: Marshal Zhukov leads Victory Parade in Red Square

68. Soviet Victory Parade, Moscow, Red Square, June 24, 1945 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mnpn5 znFEtc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mnpn5 znFEtc

69. July 1945: Stalin, Truman and Churchill at Potsdam, Germany

70. Marshal Zhukov and General Eisenhower

72. August 1945: Defeat of Japanese forces in Manchuria

73. Japanese-American historian T. Hasegawa: Soviet war on Japan was the decisive factor for Japanese surrender – not the atom bomb http://books.google.ca/books?id=iPju1MrqgU4C&pri ntsec=frontcover&dq=racing+the+enemy&hl=en&sa =X&ei=BM_GT_73B8fJ6gGV7KTMCw&ved=0CDgQ 6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=racing%20the%20enemy& f=false http://books.google.ca/books?id=iPju1MrqgU4C&pri ntsec=frontcover&dq=racing+the+enemy&hl=en&sa =X&ei=BM_GT_73B8fJ6gGV7KTMCw&ved=0CDgQ 6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=racing%20the%20enemy& f=false

74. Allied Victory Parade, Berlin, September 7, 1945 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDQ2gQttPBs&N R=1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDQ2gQttPBs&N R=1

77. The war took all nine of her sons

78. Nazi war criminals on trial at Nuremberg

79. Soviet losses in World War II Over 27 mln. killed (13.6% of the population) Of those who survived, 29 mln. took part in the fighting (including 0.8 mln. women) Battlefield losses – 11.5 mln. (Germany lost 8.6 mln.) 5.8 mln. POWs (of them 3 mln. died in concentration camps) 1,710 cities and 70,000 villages completely or partially destroyed 40,000 hospitals, 84,000 schools, 43,000 libraries destroyed Historically unprecedented level of damage suffered by a country