Battle of Stalingrad

Question 1

germany invades poland

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September 1, 1939

Question 2

lebensraum

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living space

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germany invades the soviet union in

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June 22, 1941
operation Barbarossa

Question 4

operation case blue the plan

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capture the oil fields of Baku

Question 5

fuhrer directive 21

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rules of war no longer apply

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order 227

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not a step back

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their squads will roam behind soviet lines executing deserters or anyone who retreats

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NKVD

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the German sixth army

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Friedrich Paulus

Question 9

the most decorated general in the history of both russia and the Soviet union

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georgy zhukov

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political commissar

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Nikita khrushchev

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was made commanding general of the more important 62nd army, which was to hold Stalingrad itself.

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chuikov

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German Allied armies

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romanian
the italian
hungarian

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in the beginning, the soviets relied extensively

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workers’ militias

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to neutralize the German superiority in tasiks, artillery and close air support, chuikov adopts a strategy known as

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hugging

Question 15

the Russians nicknamed the city

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the Stalingrad street fighting academy

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problems

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1. Germans were exhausted
2. the first signs of frost has been earlier than expected

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the Soviet counter offensive

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operation Uranus
georgy zhukov

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3 times Paulus requests to attempt a

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“break out”

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instead of attempting a breakout operation, hitler decided to keep axis forces in Stalingrad and

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resupply them by air

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while the Stalingrad defenders hold on hitlers organizes a relief force, operation winter storm under the command of

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erich von manstein

Question 21

manstein gets to within 30 miles of the Stalingrad defenders and orders paulus to break out to him but Paulus informs manstein of

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1. Hitler’s standing orders to “hold the city”
2. his panzers only have 12 miles of fuel
3. That his men are too weak to break out

Question 22

the soviets attacked from the north, encircling 130000 soldiers of the italian 8th army

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operation little Saturn

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hitler noted that there was no know record of a prussian or German field marshal having

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surrendered

Question 24

The Stalingrad defeat:

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1. shatters the myth of German invincibility
2. has a serious effect on German military moral
3. badly shakes the German nations faith in hitler
4. its a personal humiliation for hitler
5. is the turning point of world war II

Question 25

is the last significant German victory against the Russians for the remainder of the war

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battle of kharkov