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When the US announced its decision to consolidate the zones they controlled in Berlin, Stalin reacted by blocking access to those zones. This was known as the Berlin Blockade. The US and Britain countered with the Berlin Airlift.
Joseph Stalin come to power in Russia after the Russian Revolution in 1917. He was the secretary general of the communists party which did not want Leon Trotsky to ascend to power after the death of Lenin.
Joseph Stalin was from Russia. He was born in 1878 back in the time of the Russian Empire and died in 1953 in the time of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.) disbanded in 1991 when it split into 12 countries, one of those was Russia.
Stalin wanted to weaken Germany in revenge of what Germany did to it in ww2 .not only that but Stalin wanted to make his part particularly Berlin a communist country contradicting the west Germany which was democratic.Stalin blockaded the western side of Berlin in an effort to force the United States, Great Britain and France to abandon those parts of West Berlin that they occupied after World War 2. He hoped that by preventing food and supplies from reaching West Berlin, he would starve the Allies out of the city.Stalin controlled eastern Germany and the city of Berlin was like an island within that section. Stalin blockaded west Berlin by having fences built all the way around it. He then closed down all borders into West Berlin thereby isolating it from the rest of the surrounding eastern Germany. (The "Berlin Wall was not built until 1963 by Nikita Khrushchev.)Stalin's hope of starving the Allies out of West Berlin were foiled by the Berlin Airlift, when the Allies flew supplies into West Berlin. Stalin relented and reopened all borders.If you mean split Berlin, it was because the Western Allies took the other half of Germany and Berlin.Stalin blockaded the western side of Berlin in an effort to force the United States, Great Britain and France to abandon those parts of West Berlin that they occupied after World War 2. He hoped that by preventing food and supplies from reaching West Berlin, he would starve the Allies out of the city.Stalin controlled eastern Germany and the city of Berlin was like an island within that section. Stalin blockaded west Berlin by having fences built all the way around it. He then closed down all borders into West Berlin thereby isolating it from the rest of the surrounding eastern Germany. (The "Berlin Wall was not built until 1963 by Nikita Khrushchev.)Stalin's hope of starving the Allies out of West Berlin were foiled by the Berlin Airlift, when the Allies flew supplies into West Berlin. Stalin relented and reopened all borders.
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He was vital in stopping Hitler, and he helped start WW2. Those are his most major contributions to history in my opinion.
Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and Franklin Roosevelt. Those were the 3 leaders from the war in the 1940's.
Religion, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, capitalism, people disagreeing with the government, America, many mnay other things along those lines.
Before World War II, Stalin was a dictator in the Soviet Union who slaughtered all those who didn't like his ideas. During World War II, Stalin held off the Nazis and gradually pushed them back all the way to Germany on the Eastern Front.
The main persons vying for power were Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin. There were others, such as Grigori Zinoviev and Nikolai Bukharin, but the first battle was between Trotsky and Stalin. Lenin favored Trotsky over Stalin, but Stalin was too entrenched in the Communist Party for Trotsky to win that struggle.
Because he could not get the Malta Islands once the Japanese surrender to the US and capturing was out of the question with US having those terrible bombs.
That is really a matter of opinion. I know that Adolph Hitler was responsible for the death of 10,000,000 Joseph Stalin for the deaths of 20,000,000 and Mao for the deaths of 30,000,000. (Those numbers are just approximate) Those are just a few things. The world is a pretty messed up place.