Georgi Zhukov - Georgi Zhukov Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov (Георгий Константинович Жуков) (December 1, 1896 - June 18, 1974) was a Soviet military commander and politician, one of the finest and certainly toughest and most overtly successful army commanders of World War II. Born into a peasant family in Strelkovka, Kaluga Province, Zhukov was apprenticed to work in Moscow, and in 1915 was conscripted into a dragoon regiment as a private. During World War I Zhukov was awarded the St.George Cross twice and promoted to the rank of non-commissioned officer for his bravery in battle. He joined the Communist Party after the October Revolution, and his background of poverty became an asset. After recovering from typhus he fought in the civil war (1918-1920), receiving the Order of the Battle Red.
1942 - the Solomon Islands. August 8 - World War II: In Washington, DC, six German would-be saboteurs are executed (two others were cooperative and received life imprisonment instead). August 9 - Indian leader, Mohandas Gandhi is arrested in Bombay by British forces. August 19 - World War II: The Dieppe Raid - Allied forces raid Dieppe in France. September 24 - Andrée Borrel and Lise de Baissac became the first female SOE agents to be parachuted into occupied France. October 3 - The first V-2 rocket (A4 Rocket) is launched into space in Peenemünde, Germany. October 9 - Statute of Westminster Adoption Act formalizes Australian autonomy. October 11 - World War II: Battle of Cape Esperance - On the northwest coast of Guadalcanal, United States Navy ships intercept and defeat a Japanese.
20th century - hole. The problem is increased by world-wide deforestation, also causing a loss of biodiversity. The problem of a depletion of natural resources is decreased by advances in drilling technology which led to a net increase in the amount of fossil fuel that is readily obtainable at the end of the century, as compared with the amount considered obtainable at the beginning of the century. Significant people World Leaders Africa Gnassingbe Eyadema, Togo Felix Houphouet-Boigny, Côte d'Ivoire Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya Idi Amin, Uganda Nelson Mandela, South Africa Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egypt Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana Julius Nyerere, Tanzania Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, Libya Cecil Rhodes, South Africa Haile Selassie, Ethiopia Leopold Sedar Senghor, Senegal Sekou Toure, Guinea Americas Theodore Roosevelt, USA Franklin Delano Roosevelt, USA Dwight Eisenhower, USA.
Allied Control Council - German Reich (Deutsche Reich) government under Karl Doenitz and Ludwig Graf Schwerin von Krosigk was removed and the German government from then on until 1949 was handled by the Allied Control Council. The representatives were as follows: Marshal Georgi Zhukov (Soviet Union), Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery (United Kingdom) , General Dwight Eisenhower (United States) and General Jean Joseph-Marie Gabriel Lattre de Tassigny (France). The building in which the Allied Control Council was housed and from where it operated was previously the building of the German Supreme Court. It became called Alliertes Kontrollratsgebäude. It was situated in Berlin-Schöneberg, Hauptstrasse, in the Kleist Park. The ongoing Iron Curtain confrontations left the function of the Control Council, which was intended to govern as a united body, in limbo. After 1945, when the Soviet Union.
Asian theatre of World War II - a policy of assassination by secret societies and the effects of the Great Depression had caused the civilian government to lose control of the military. In addition, the military high command had limited control over the field armies who acted on their own interest, often in contradiction to the overall national interest. There was also an upsurge in nationalism and anti-European feeling and the belief that Japanese policies in China could be justified by racial theories. One popular belief with similarities to the Identity movement was that Japan and not China was the true heir of classical Chinese civilization. In 1937, Chiang was kidnapped by Zhang Xueliang in the Xian Incident. As condition of his release, Chiang promised to unite with the Communists and fight the Japanese. In response to this,.
Battle of Halhin Gol - strike south, who argued that Japan should capture the Pacific islands and southeast Asia. This set the stage for the attack against Pearl Harbor, a few years later. It was also the first victory won by the famed Soviet general Georgi Zhukov. In May of 1939, Japanese forces entered territory belonging the country of Mongolia from positions in their colony of Manchukuo. This angered the Soviets, who had occupied Mongolia in the 1920s and were virtual rulers of it. The two nations had been disputing the border between Mongolia and Manchukuo for several years before the Japanese forced the issue. The Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin ordered STAVKA, the Red Army's high command, to develop a plan for a counterstroke against the Japanese. To lead the attack, Zhukov, a young officer of.
STAVKA - top capacities as the head of state and as the leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. According to this decree STAVKA comprised of the defence minister Marshal Semyon Timoshenko (as its president), the head of General Staff Georgi Zhukov, Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Marshal Kliment Voroshilov, Marshal Budionniy and the Secretary of the Navy admiral Kuznetsov. The same decree organized at Stavka "the institution of permanent counsellors of Stavka comprising of comrades Marshal Kulik, Marshal Shaposhnikov, Meretskov, head of the Air Force Zhigarev, Vatutin, head of Air Defence Voronov, Mikoyan, Kaganovich, Lavrenty Beria, Voznesenskiy, Zhdanov, Malenkov, Mekhlis". Very soon afterwards the deputy defence minister army general Meretskov was arrested following the false charges by Beria and Merkoulov. Meretskov was subsequently released from the jail and on the same day.
October 23 - Samuel R. Curtis defeat Confederate troops led by General Stirling Price at Westport, near Kansas City. 1915 - Woman's suffrage: In New York City, 25,000-33,000 women march up Fifth Avenue to demand the right to vote. 1929 - Great Depression: After a steady decline in stock market prices since a peak in September, the New York Stock Exchange begins to show signs of panic. 1941 - World War II: Georgi Zhukov assumes command of Red Army efforts to stop the German advance into Russia. 1942 - World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein starts - At El Alamein in Egypt, British forces begin a major offensive against Axis forces. 1944 - World War II: Battle of Leyte Gulf begins - The largest naval battle in history begins in Leyte Gulf..
Order of Lenin - of the Soviet Union and Hero of Socialist Labor, to those who promoted friendship and cooperation between peoples and in strengthening peace, and other meritorious services to the Soviet state and society. It was also awarded to factories, companies, cities, regions, and republics. Among the recipients of the Order of Lenin are the Pravda newspaper, Nikita Khrushchev, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, General Georgi Zhukov and Fidel Castro..
November 19 - film director Thomas Ince ("The Father of the Western") dies of a heart attack in his bed (rumors soon surface that he was shot dead by publishing tycoon William Randolph Hearst). 1941 - World War II: The Australian war cruiser HMAS Sydney sinks off the coast of Western Australia, killing 645 sailors. 1942 - World War II: Battle of Stalingrad - Soviet Union forces under General Georgi Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor. 1944 - World War II: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling US$14 billion in war bonds to help pay for the war effort. 1946 - Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations. 1959 - Ford Motor Company.
List of Slavs - - Pole Karol Szymanowski - Pole Wisława Szymborska (Wislawa Szymborska) - Pole Alfred Tarski - Pole Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Russian Nikola Tesla - Serb Josip Broz Tito - Croat-Slovene Leo Tolstoy - Russian Primož Trubar - Slovene Franjo Tuđman - Croat Stanisław Ulam (Stanislaw Ulam) - Pole Paul Samuilovich Urysohn - Russian Janez Vajkard Valvasor - Slovene Jurij Vega - Slovene Milan Vidmar - Slovene Mark Viduka - Croat-Australian Lech Wałęsa (Lech Walesa) - Pole Andrzej Wajda - Pole Boris Yeltsin - Russian Georgi Zhukov - Russian Nikola Zrinski - Croat-Hungarian See also: List of people, List of people by nationality, List of Bulgarians, List of Czechs, List of Poles, List of Russians, List of Serbs, List of Slovaks, List of Slovenes, List of Ukrainians..
List of military commanders - Horatio Kitchener Douglas Haig (WWI UK) Ferdinand Foch (WWI France) Erich Ludendorff (WWI Germany) Paul von Hindenburg (WWI Germany) Mechanized Warfare Harold Alexander (WWII UK) Claude Auchinleck (WWII UK) Dwight Eisenhower (WWII US) William Gott (WWII UK) Heinz Guderian (WWII Germany) Field Marshal Gustav Mannerheim (WWII Finland) Field Marshal Montgomery (WWII UK) Leslie Morshead (Australia, WW II) George Patton (WWII US) "Chesty" Puller (WWII US Marine) Erwin Rommel (WWII Germany) Gerd von Rundstedt (WWII Germany) Erich von Mainstein (WWII Germany) Franc Rozman Stane (WWII Slovene partisans) Josip Broz Tito (WWII Yugoslav partisans) William Westmoreland (Vietnam War US) Mao Zedong (Chinese communist leader) Georgi Zhukov (WWII Soviet Union) Early Space-Age Warfare Norman Schwarzkopf (Operation Desert Storm Allied Coalition Commander) See also List of British Field Marshals List of German Field Marshals List.
List of Russians - Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky (1889 - 1972), helicopter and aircraft designer Pavel Osipovich Sukhoi (1895 - 1975), aircraft constructor and designer Leon Theremin (Lev Sergeyevich Termen) (1896 - 1993), inventor of one of the first electronic musical instruments, the Theremin Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, (1857 - 1935), rocket scientist and pioneer of astronautics Andrei Nicolayevich Tupolev, (1888 - 1972), aircraft designer and builder Vladimir Kosma Zworykin (1899 - 1982), physicist and electrical engineer Explorers: Vitus Bering (1681 - 1741), explorer of north-western and south-western Alaska Semion Ivanovich Dezhnev (circa 1605 - 1673), explorer of north-eastern Asia Ivan Fedorov, explorer of north-western Alaska Military: Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev (1925 - 1970), cosmonaut Georgi Timofeyevich Beregovoi (1921 - 1995), cosmonaut Semion Ivanovich Cheliuskin (circa 1700 - after 1760), Polar explorer, lieutenant-captain of the Russian Imperial Navy Lev.
List of people associated with World War II - (1903-1944), SOE agent Leopold Trepper, Head of Rote Kapelle Brazil Getulio Vargas, (1883-1954), president Bulgaria Boris III, (1894-1943) Georgi Dimitrov Simeon II, (1943-1946) Todor Zhivkov, (1911-1998) Burma U Aung San, (1915-1947), Commander in Chief of the Burma Independence Army U Ba Maw, prime minister during Japanese occupation Canada Max Aitken (Lord Beaverbrook), (1879-1964), politician and press tycoon George Beurling, (1921-1948), fighter ace Gustave Biéler (1904-1944), SOE agent, executed by the Nazis Peter Dmytruk (1920-1943), Flight Sergeant and French Resistance fighter John Kenneth Macalister (1914-1944 , SOE agent, executed by the Nazis William Lyon Mackenzie King, (1874-1950), Prime Minister John Gillespie Magee, Junior, (1922-1941), American who served with the Royal Canadian Air Force and author of "High Flight" Andrew George Latta (Andy) McNaughton, (1887-1966), scientist, military commander, and diplomat Frank Pickersgill (1915-1944),.
List of people by name: Zh - (born 1980) Zhang, Ziyi, actor Zhang Zizhong Zhao Ziyang, (born 1919) Zhekov, Nikola, (1864-1949), Commander-in-Chief Zheng Chenggong, (1624-1662) Zheng He, (1371 - 1435) Chinese mariner, explorer Zhivkov, Todor, (1911-1998) Bulgarian dictator Zholobov, Vitaly, astronaut Zhongshu, Qian, (1910-1998), author of "Wei Cheng'' Zhou Enlai, (1898-1976), communist ambassador to Kuomintang Zhu De, (1886-1976) Zhu Rongji, (born 1928) Zhu Shijie, (1270-1330), (Mathematician) Zhukov, Georgi Konstantinovich, (1896-1974), Soviet field marshal, politician.
Georgi Markov - Georgi Markov Georgi Ivanov Markov (March 1, 1929 - September 11, 1978) was a Bulgarian dissident who was assassinated in London by agents of the KGB. On September 7, 1978 he walked across Waterloo Bridge, which crosses the River Thames, and was waiting at a bus stop on the other side, when he was jabbed in the leg by a man holding an umbrella. The man apologised and walked away. Markov would later tell doctors that the man had spoken in a foreign accent. Markov remembered feeling a stinging pain from where he had been hit by the umbrella tip, and when he arrived at work at the BBC World Service offices he noticed a small red pimple had formed and the pain from being jabbed.
Georgi Beregovoi - Georgi Beregovoi Georgi Timofeyevich Beregovoi, cyrillic Георгий Тимофеевич Береговой, (April 15, 1921, Fedorovka - June 30, 1995) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on a single space mission, Soyuz 3. He joined the Soviet air force in 1941, and was soon assigned to a ground-attack unit flying the Ilyushin Il-2 "Shturmovik". He flew some 185 combat sorties during the course of World War II and rose quickly through the ranks, finishing the war as a Captain and Squadron Commander. He flew some 185 combat sorties and was decorated as Hero of the Soviet Union. Following the war, he became a test pilot, and over the next sixteen years test-flew some sixty different aircraft, rising to the rank of Colonel and the position of Deputy Chief of.
Georgi Shonin - Georgi Shonin Georgi Stepanovich Shonin, cyrillic Георгий Степанович Шонин, (August 3, 1935 - April 7, 1997) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 6 space mission. He was born in Rovenki. Shonin was part of the original group of cosmonauts selected in 1960. He left the space programme in 1979 for medical reasons. He later worked as the director of one of a defence research institute. He died of a heart attack in 1997..
Georgi Dobrovolski - Georgi Dobrovolski Georgi Timofeyevich Dobrovolski (born June 1 1928 in Odessa, died June 30 1971) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 11 mission and had the unfortunate distinction of being part of the first acknowledged Soviet crew to die during a space flight. After a normal re-entry, the capsule was opened and the crew was found dead. It was discovered that a valve had opened just prior to leaving orbit that had allowed the capsule's atmosphere to vent away into space, suffocating the crew..
Georgi Lozanov - Georgi Lozanov Georgi Lozanov is a Bulgarian educator and psychologist who emerged in the 1970s as a leading figure in the field of accelerated learning with his theory of suggestopedia where various techniques, including breathing and music, were found to enhance learning..
