"Большая Тройка в Ялте"

The Big Three in Yalta. 1945

Baranov Arseniy,10A

Quiz `GUESS WHO`

- He ruled for more than two decades, instituting a reign of death and terror while modernizing the country.

- He is a son of a cobbler (сапожник) and a washerwoman

- He was a frail (хилый) child. Smallpox (оспа) left his face scarred. A carriage accident left his arm slightly deformed. 

- He excelled in seminary school

- He experienced many arrests and exiles (ссылки)

- He adopted the name, meaning "steel" in Russian

- He was marked by the Okhranka (the tsar's secret police) as an outlaw and continued his work in hiding, raising money through robberies, kidnappings and extortion.

- His potential rivals were accused of aligning with capitalist nations, convicted of being "enemies of the people" . They were exiled to the labor camps of the Gulag or were executed. The period is known as the Great Purge.

- As war clouds gathered over Europe in 1939, he made a seemingly brilliant move, signing a nonaggression pact with Germany's Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party. 

- He demanded the Allies open up a second front against Germany in the spring of 1944. 

- His favourite film was the 1938 picture Volga Volga.[806]

- He was a keen and accomplished billiards player and collected watches.

- He became a keen gardener and devoted much attention to agricultural activities

- He married twice and had several offspring.

- Stalin transformed the Soviet Union into a major industrial world power, one which could "claim impressive achievements" in terms of urbanisation, military strength, education, and Soviet pride. Under his rule, the average Soviet life expectancy grew due to improved living conditions, nutrition, and medical care; mortality rates also declined.

- He came to be portrayed as an "Oriental despot".

- He was eventually denounced by his successor, Nikita Khrushchev, in 1956. - He led his country through the post-war reconstruction with the Five Years, during which it turned into a global superpower that developed a nuclear weapon in 1949.

- He was the subject of a pervasive personality cult

- He excelled academically, displaying talent in painting and drama classes, writing his own poetry, and singing as a choirboy.

- He adopted the nickname "Koba" from that of the book's bandit protagonist ( Alexander Kazbegi's The Patricide)

A mugshot (фото под арестом) of Stalin made in 1911 by the Tsarist secret police.

- He had a heavy Georgian accent when speaking Russian.

- He rarely spoke before large audiences, and preferred to express himself in written form.

He favoured military-style clothing, in particular long black boots, light-coloured collarless tunics, and a gun.

- He was a lifelong smoker, who smoked both a pipe and cigarettes.

- his interest was in power rather than wealth.[742]

- He disliked travel and refused to travel by plane.

He never attended torture sessions or executions

I found him better informed than Roosevelt, more realistic than Churchill, in some ways the most effective of the war leaders... I must confess that for me Stalin remains the most inscrutable and contradictory character I have known – and leave the final word to the judgment of history. — U.S. ambassador W. Averell Harriman

- He protected several writers, such as Mikhail Bulgakov, even when their work was labelled harmful to his regime

- He was a voracious reader, with a library of over 20,000 books

- He came from a long line of English aristocrat-politicians. His father was descended from the First Duke of Marlborough. His mother was an American heiress whose father was a stock speculator and part-owner of The New York Times. (Rich American girls who married European noblemen were known as “dollar princesses.”)

- He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953 for his six-volume history of World War II.

- He performed so poorly at school that he did not even bother to apply to Oxford or Cambridge. Instead, he headed off to military school.

- He warned about bellicose Germany, established the Royal Naval Air Service, modernized the fleet and helped invent one of the earliest tanks.

- His nickname is The “British Bulldog”

- He persuaded U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to provide war supplies – ammunition, guns, tanks, planes – to the Allies, a program known as Lend-Lease, before the Americans even entered the war.

- He was afraid of the dangers of Soviet expansionism and declared an anti-democratic “Iron Curtain`` to describe the Communist threat.

- In 1953, Queen Elizabeth made him a knight of the Order of the Garter.

- It was only at the third attempt that he managed to pass the entrance examination to the Royal Military College,

- In the dark early days of the Second World War his country had few real weapons. He attacked with words instead. One journalist wrote, 'He took the English language and sent it into battle.'

- He is the only president to win four terms in a row.

- He was the distant cousin of the American president between the years 1901–1909.

-He was homeschooled. He entered Harvard where he studied law.

- He came down with polio in 1921 which left him permanently paralyzed from the waist down. He later learned to walk but usually needed a cane and someone’s help. He also used steel braces to increase his movement.- He led the nation through the Great Depression, expanding the powers of the federal government through a series of programs and reforms known as the New Deal. 

- He was the 32nd American president. FDR, as he was often called

- He spent much of his adult life in a wheelchair

-He had six children

- As one biographer noted, "He lifted himself from a wheelchair to lift the nation from its knees."FDR described the Lend-Lease Program as similar to loaning a garden hose to a neighbor whose house was on fire, thereby protecting one's own house.

Results:

Devision of german and other opponents` territories between the winners

Forming the united nations organisation

Fascism and nazism are imposed a ban

Decreaesing the role of britian and france in the world policy

Usa and ussa are the main super powers