In 1944, Joseph Stalin said in a speech that artillery was " the God of War ".

Working closely with Winston Churchill of Britain, and Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union, Roosevelt sent his forces into the Pacific against Japan, then into North Africa against Italy and Germany, and finally into Europe starting with France and Italy in 1944 against the Germans.

Italian and French communist leaders were prevented by party rules from pointing out that it was actually Stalin who had directed them not to take opposition stances in 1944.

Twice, in 1933 and 1944, the Uyghurs successfully regained their independence ( backed by the Soviet Communist leader Joseph Stalin ): the First East Turkestan Republic was a short-lived attempt at independence of land around Kashghar, and it was destroyed by Chinese Muslim army under General Ma Zhancang and Ma Fuyuan at the Battle of Kashgar ( 1934 ).

* November 28 – WWII – Tehran Conference: U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran to discuss war strategy ( on November 30 they establish an agreement concerning a planned June 1944 invasion of Europe codenamed Operation Overlord ).

Joseph Stalin awarded the unit the name Niemen for its participation in the Battle of the Niemen River ( 1944 ).

Roosevelt gave Stalin a pledge that he had been waiting for since June 1941: that the British and the Americans would open a second front in France in the spring of 1944.

Joseph Stalin chose Bagration as the name of the Soviet offensive launched on 22 June 1944 that defeated the German Army Group Centre and drove the forces of Nazi Germany out of what is now Belarus.

In February 1944 Stalin deported all the Chechens and Ingush to Kazakh and Kirghiz SSRs.

He graduated in 1944 and then moved to the Stalin Naval Air School.

Stalin removed Timoshenko from front-line command, giving him roles as overall commander of the Stalingrad ( June 1942 ), then North-Western ( October 1942 ), Leningrad ( June 1943 ), Caucasus ( June 1944 ) and Baltic ( August 1944 ) fronts.

During the Moscow Conference in October 1944 Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, proposed an agreement to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin on how to split up Eastern Europe into spheres of influence after the war.

The new anthem was presented to Stalin in the summer of 1943 and was introduced as the country's new anthem on January 1, 1944.

His choir participated successfully in the Universal Exposition of 1937 in Paris, and in 1942, Stalin commissioned him and lyrist Sergey Mikhalkov to create a new Soviet national anthem, which was officially adopted on 1 January 1944.

In October 1944, Churchill traveled to Moscow and agreed to divide the Balkans into respective spheres of influence, and at Yalta Roosevelt signed a separate deal with Stalin in regard of Asia and refused to support Churchill on the issues of Poland and the Reparations.

On September 21, 1951, Aslan Aliyevich Maskhadov was born in the Karagandy Province of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic ( SSR ) of the Soviet Union, in the small village of Shakai, during the mass deportation of the Chechen people ordered in 1944 by Joseph Stalin.

Meeting with Stalin in Moscow on 9 October 1944, Churchill penciled a list of which power was to have what degree of " dominance " in each country lying between the Soviet Union and western Europe.

On 22 July 1944, Stalin announced the creation of the Polish Committee of National Liberation, Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego, the PKWN.

There is no doubt that Stalin meant all this seriously, and tried to prove it by dissolving the Comintern in 1943, and the Communist Party of the USA in 1944.

In 1944 all Kalmyks were expelled to Siberia by Stalin, accused of supporting invading Axis armies attacking Stalingrad ( Volgograd ).

In 1944 and 1945, the last two years of the Second World War the award ceremonies for the Stalin Prize were not held.

Soviet leadership policies were often more measured, however: the Soviet Union eventually withdrew from Northern Iran, at Anglo-American behest ; Stalin did observe his 1944 agreement with Churchill and did not aid the communists in the struggle against government in Greece ; in Finland he accepted a friendly, non-communist government ; and Russian troops were withdrawn from Czechoslovakia by the end of 1945.

In 1944 he was appointed Deputy Commissar for Defence, under Stalin, and served as Stalin's principal agent in the High Command of the Red Army.

While serving in the military, Brubeck met Paul Desmond in early 1944.

LaGuardia's sister, Gemma LaGuardia Gluck ( 1881-1962 ), and brother-in-law, Herman Gluck ( a Hungarian Jew whom she met while teaching English in Europe ), were living in Hungary and were arrested by the Gestapo on 7 June 1944, when the Nazis took control of Budapest.

He then ravages on Tokyo as payback for the Japanese attempting to erase him from existence, and Shindo is killed ; though not before he and Godzilla share a brief moment of the two remembering each other from when they first met on Lagos Island in 1944, and Godzilla is seemingly sad for once.

Bogart met Lauren Bacall while filming To Have and Have Not ( 1944 ), a loose adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway novel.

His prestige was restored unwittingly by Gandhi, who had been released from prison on medical grounds in May 1944 and had met Jinnah in Bombay in September.

Gandhi met Jinnah in September 1944 in Bombay but Jinnah rejected, on the grounds that it fell short of a fully independent Pakistan, his proposal of the right of Muslim provinces to opt out of substantial parts of the forthcoming political union.

Desmond had first met Dave Brubeck in 1944 while still in the military.

In 1943 an international panel met to consider " the question of the Permanent Court of International Justice ", meeting from 20 March to 10 February 1944.

However, this demand was not met by the Soulbury reforms of 1944 / 45.

There he met his contemporary Richard Burton, and together they joined the RAF in 1944.

In the summer of 1940 Williams initiated an affair with Kip Kiernan ( 1918 – 1944 ), a young Canadian dancer he met in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

The Seventh Cross ( 1944 ), about an escape from a Nazi concentration camp, met with critical acclaim.

In 1944, Horne met and fell in love with Marjorie Thomas, a war widow with a young daughter.

Eva met Colonel Juan Perón on 22 January 1944, in Buenos Aires during a charity event at the Luna Park Stadium to benefit the victims of an earthquake in San Juan, Argentina.

Groves met with the Chief of United States Army Air Forces, General Henry H. Arnold, in March 1944 to discuss the delivery of the finished bombs to their targets.

" Roy Oliver Disney had misgivings about the project, doubting that it was " big enough in caliber and natural draft " to warrant a budget over $ 1 million and more than twenty-five minutes of animation, but in June 1944, Walt hired Southern-born writer Dalton Reymond to write the screenplay, and he met frequently with King Vidor, whom he was trying to interest in directing the live-action sequences.

On 23 August 1944, prior to the liberation of Paris, General Charles de Gaulle arrived at Rambouillet and set up his headquarters in the castle where, in the evening, he met General Philippe Leclerc who, at the head of his French 2nd Armored Division ( 2e Division blindée, more affectionately known in France as La Deuxième DB ), had mission to liberate Paris.

Yet, when his family moved to Chicago in 1944, his parents met a psychiatrist and family friend whose son was enrolled in the University of Chicago ’ s humanities program for gifted students.

Sometimes it is interpreted as a meditation on Rothko ’ s courtship of his second wife, Mary Ellen " Mell " Beistle, whom he met in 1944 and married in the spring of 1945.

Also during the war, Eliade traveled to Berlin, where he met and conversed with controversial political theorist Carl Schmitt, and frequently visited Francoist Spain, where he notably attended the 1944 Lusitano-Spanish scientific congress in Córdoba.

Carr also knew Kerouac's girlfriend Edie Parker, through whom Burroughs met Kerouac in 1944.

Howard moved back to the theatre in The Recruiting Officer ( 1943 ), where he met the actress Helen Cherry ; they married in 1944 and stayed together until Howard's death in 1988 ; they had no children.

In Auschwitz, in May 1944, SS guards attempted to liquidate the gypsy family camp and were " met with unexpected resistance-the Roma fought back with crude weapons-and retreated.

At one of the parties that her mother hosted for British émigré performers in their Laurel Canyon home, Lansbury met the casting director for the upcoming film Gaslight ( 1944 ), and he offered her the part of Nancy Oliver, Ingrid Bergman's conniving maid.