Adolf Hitler Vs Joseph Stalin (General Knowledge)

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Adolf Hitler:

April 20, 1889
Hitler is born in Austria.
Hitler is born in Braunau Am Inn, Austria. His parents, Alois and Klara, come from poor peasant families.

January 14, 1907
Hitler's mother dies.
Klara Hitler dies of cancer. The loss of his mother affects Hitler deeply and it is said that he has a photo of her in his pocket when he dies.

February 1908
Hitler moves to Vienna.

At the age of 17,
Hitler moves to Vienna, the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He plans to attend art school there but when he is rejected by the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts for the second time in October, he gives up on his dream.

1914
Hitler begins military service in World War I.
After ignoring his army orders in 1909 because of his hate for Austria and later being rejected by the Austrian army for being too weak, Hitler volunteers for Germany. With a war happening, medical examinations were not a strict and Hitler is accepted.

October 1918
Hitler is blinded by mustard gas.
While fighting the British, Hitler is blinded by a mustard gas attack. He regains his sight but while he is recovering he is deeply depressed and spends much of his time crying.


May 1919
Hitler volunteers to identify Socialist Republic sympathizers.
In Munich, Hitler convinces the German army that he is against socialism and avoids arrest. He helps the army find other soldiers who did support socialism and he is recruited to be a political officer.

1921
Hitler is elected the leader of the new Nazi Party.
Hitler wins an election and becomes the leader of new political party, nicknamed Nazi. The party's official name is National Socialist German Workers Party and it believes that equality is only for Germans, not Jews or immigrants.

April 1, 1924
Hitler is sentenced to five years in prison for treason.
The Nazis unsuccessfully try to take over the German government and Hitler is sentenced to prison for five years for treason. While there, he dictates his autobiography and book of political ideas, "Mein Kampf," to Rudolph Hess.

1933
The Jewish Holocaust begins.The Nazis, led by Hitler, begin to systematically eliminate Jews from Eastern Europe. At least six million Jews will be killed, many in brutal concentration camps, before the Holocaust ends in 1945.

August 2, 1934
Hitler becomes Germany's dictator.
After being named chancellor of Germany in 1933, a presidential election is held in 1934 that Hitler easily wins, partially because he vows to fight communism. He is now firmly in power as dictator of Germany with the title of Fuhrer.

January 2, 1939
Hitler is named Time magazine's "Man of the Year."
Due to his political dominance and being such as central figure in the world, Time magazine names Hitler as "Man of the Year." The magazine describes the actions of his Nazi Party as "ruthless."

December 11, 1941
Hitler declares war against the United States.
Four days after Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, Hitler declares war against the U.S. Germany had no agreement with Japan, but Hitler likes the fact that he is now the center of World War II, the biggest war the world has ever seen.

July 20, 1944
Hitler survives an assassination attempt.

Hitler escapes serious injury when a bomb explodes at his headquarters in Berlin. It is the third assassination attempt against Hitler. A senior officer is blamed for planting the bomb.

March 19, 1945
Hitler orders the destruction of the Germany's infrastructure.
Hitler decides that since Germany has lost the war, the country does not deserve to survive. He orders the destruction of the railroads, highways, and other important features of German industry, but the order is not obeyed.

April 30, 1945
Hitler commits suicide in Berlin.
Probably trying to avoid being captured by Soviet troops, Hitler kills himself. He commits suicide by shooting himself in the head while biting down on a poisonous cyanide capsule.



Joseph Stalin:

December 21, 1879: birth of Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, later known as Stalin

September 1888: ·Stalin enters Gori Church School

September 1894: ·Stalin enrolls in Tiflis Theological Seminary

March 1898: ·First Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party

May 29, 1899: ·Stalin is expelled from the Seminary

April 5, 1902: ·Stalin arrested for the first time, exiled to Siberia

Summer 1903: ·the Social Democrats split into Bolsheviks and Mensheviks.

January 5, 1904: ·Stalin escapes from Siberia, the first of many escapes from exile in the
following decade.

1905: ·Revolution in Russia. Nicholas II announces constitutional reforms, and the creation of the Duma, or elected assembly. Stalin marries Yekaterina Svanidze.

December 1905: ·Stalin goes as a delegate to Bolshevik conference in Finland, meets Lenin for the first time.

March 1907: ·Birth of Stalin's first child, Yakov

October 1907: ·Death of Yekaterina

January 1912: ·Bolsheviks officially separate from Social Democrats, Stalin appointed to the Party's Central Committee by Lenin.

January 1913: ·Stalin co-writes, with Lenin, "Marxism and the National Question"

August-September 1914: ·Outbreak of World War I.

March 1917: ·Beginning of Russian Revolution. The Tsar's government falls, replaced with a Provisional Government. Bolsheviks, including Stalin, hasten to St. Petersburg

April 1917: ·Lenin returns from Switzerland, rebukes Stalin for taking a conciliar line with the Provisional Government.

November 1917: ·Bolsheviks overthrow Provisional Government, seize power. Stalin plays only a minor role.

February 1918: ·Stalin marries Nadezhda Alliluyeva

1918-1920: ·Civil war in Russia. Trotsky organizes Red Army; Stalin commands forces in Tsaritsyn, Petrograd (St. Petersburg), and elsewhere.

1921: ·Birth of Stalin's second child, Vasily

1922: ·Official founding of Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

April 1922: ·Stalin elected General Secretary of the Communist Party

May 25, 1922: ·Lenin suffers his first stroke

January 4, 1923: ·Lenin, in a postscript to his Testament, warns the Party to remove Stalin from his position of power.

March 7, 1923: ·Lenin suffers final stroke, loses his powers of speech

January 21, 1924: ·Death of Lenin. Stalin survives the reading of the Testament by the Central Committee in May.

1924-25: ·Stalin publicly attacks Trotsky for being unfaithful to "Leninism."

December 1924: ·Stalin publicly articulates his theory of "Socialism in One Country."

December 1925: ·Allied with Bukharin and the "Rightists," Stalin begins attacks on Zinoviev.

February 28, 1926: ·Birth of Stalin's third child, Svetlana

October-November 1926: ·At the Fifteenth Party Congress, Stalin attacks the "United
Opposition" of Zinoviev, Kamenev, and Trotsky.

1927: ·Beginning of the first Five-Year Plan

November 1927: ·Kamenev and Zinoviev expelled from the Party; Trotsky expelled and sent to Central Asia.

April 1929: ·Stalin begins assault on Bukharin

November 1929: ·Bukharin removed from the Politburo

December 1929: ·Stalin announces "liquidation of the kulaks as a class"; collectivization begins in earnest.

1931-32: ·Terrible famine across the Soviet Union; millions die

November 8, 1932: ·Suicide of Nadezhda

December 1, 1934: ·Murder, by Stalin's agents, of Sergei Kirov. Beginning of "Great Terror," which continues until 1938.

January 1935: ·Zinoviev, Kamenev, and others are arrested, accused of complicity in Kirov's assassination.

August 1936: ·First "Show Trial." Zinoviev, Kamenev, and their allies confess and are executed.

January 1937: ·Second Show Trial

June 1937: ·Purge of the army begins, top generals are tried and executed

March 1938: ·Third Show Trial, conviction and execution of Bukharin, Rykov, others.

March 1939: ·At Eighteenth Party Congress, Stalin announces end of the Great Terror.

August 23, 1939: ·Nazi-Soviet Pact is signed in Moscow

September 1939: ·Outbreak of World War II

August 20, 1940: ·Trotsky assassinated, by Stalin's agents, in Mexico City.

June 21, 1941: ·Hitler invades Soviet Union

August 1942-February 1943: · Battle of Stalingrad. Germans are defeated, marking the turning point in the war.

November 1943: · Stalin meets with Roosevelt and Churchill in Teheran

February 1945: ·Stalin meets with Roosevelt and Churchill at Yalta

April 31, 1945: ·Hitler commits suicide in bombed-out Berlin, ending war in Europe. Red Army controls all of Eastern Europe.

August 1945: ·United States uses atomic bomb against Japan, bringing an end to the war in the Pacific.

February 1948: ·Communists seize power in Czechoslovakia, cementing Soviet control of Eastern Europe.

Summer 1948: ·Soviets blockade East Berlin.

1949: ·Communists, under Mao, are victorious in Chinese Civil War.

September 1949: ·Soviets explode their first atomic bomb.

December 1949: ·Stalin celebrates his seventieth birthday.

February 1950: ·Sino-Soviet Treaty signed

1950-53: ·Korean War

January 1953: ·Announcement of Jewish "Doctors' Plot" against Stalin, plans for new wave of terror.

March 5, 1953: ·Death of Stalin



Now both rest in silence , the graveyard of Alexander the great,marks line that "Those who lay here once supposed that world wouldn't run beyond them". That's all buddies


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