Great Patriotic War

Question 1

What was the code name for the invasion of the USSR

When did preparation begin?

Answer 1

Operation Barbarossa

Oct 1940

Question 2

When was Operation Barbarossa meant to launch?
When was the new launch?
Why was it delayed?

Answer 2

1st June
22nd June
Yugoslavian Crisis resulting in a blitzkrieg

Question 3

How did Germany attack Russia?

What the aim?

Answer 3

Three huge army groups
Towards Leningrad, Ukraine and Moscow
Aim to eradicate commission and liberate the Russians

Question 4

Name four examples of how Stalin/Russia was unprepared for war

Answer 4

Army purges 1937-1939
1939 War against Japan
Stalin miscalcualted the effectiveness of the Naxi-Soviet pact
Stalin ignored foriegn sources warning of an invasion

Question 5

How did Stalin react to the German invasion?

Answer 5

At first shrank away leaving Molotov to address the nation
3rd July radio speech appealing to Patriotism,religion and unity among nationalities - Great Patriotic War
He also made new friends with Churchill

Question 6

What poor leadership decision did Stalin make about Kiev?

How many troops surrendered at Kiev?

Answer 6

Sept 1941 refused retreat on Kiev until it was too late

19th 1/2 a million

Question 7

Name Stalin’s War cabinet

Answer 7

Stavka

Question 8

Name the master Spy

Answer 8

Richard Sorge

Question 9

Name the three distinct phases of the war

Answer 9

June 412-Summer 42- huge loses
1942 - Summer 43- stabilizing
1943-Summer 45- offensive

Question 10

After how many weeks did the germans generals think the war was virtually won and Moscow to be captured?

Answer 10

two weeks

Moscow captured by the end of August

Question 11

When was Leningrad surrounded and the siege began?

Answer 11

8th Sept 1941

Question 12

When were German troops halted from Moscow and how far away?

Answer 12

Dec 5th

20km away

Question 13

When did a compromised peace negation began?

Who led them?

Answer 13

15th Oct 1941

Led by Molotov and Beria

Question 14

Hitlers generals had underestimated the Soviet Divisions? How ?

Answer 14

Predicted 200

Actual is 360

Question 15

When was Case Blue and what was it?

Answer 15

1941

Attack on Caucasus

Question 16

When was the lowest point of the was for the USSR?

Answer 16

Fall of Rostov on the Don

July 1942

Question 17

What was the battle that both Stalin and Lenin became obsessed with?

Answer 17

The Battle of Leningrad

Question 18

In Summer 42 how much of Stalingrad did the germans occupy?

When did the balance change in the Battle in Leningrad?

Answer 18

Germany occupied 9/10th
October
German 6th Army was cut off and encircled and Hitler refused them to retreat

Question 19

Name the largest tank battle in history
What German operation did this halt and well was it called off?
Who won?
What tank did they use?

Answer 19

Battle of Prokhorovka
Operation Citadel called off 13th July
Red army won with the T-34 tanks

Question 20

Name the victories for Red Army in August 1943 to December 1944

Answer 20

Reconquering Ukraine
Lifting the siege of Leningrad
Invading Poland,Lithuania Romania and Hungary

Question 21

When was the first conference of the Big three and where?

Answer 21

Nov 1943 at Tehran

Question 22

When was the bomb plot on Hitlers life?

Answer 22

July 1944

Question 23

When did Stalin and Churchill meet in Moscow?

Answer 23

Oct 1944

Question 24

How long was the siege of Leningrad and when did it end?

Answer 24

972 days

27th January 1944

Question 25

How many Soviet towns, cities and villages were devastated by war?

Answer 25

1700 towns and cities

70,000 villages

Question 26

How many people died from hunger and cold during leningrad siege?

Answer 26

600,000

Question 27

By 1945 what was the total civically death record?

Answer 27

12 million +

Question 28

How did Germany treat the captured Soviet Countries

Answer 28

Soldiers POW
Civilians sent to German factories
execution of commissars
massacre + deportation of Jews

Question 29

Name the significant massacre of the Jews

Answer 29

Babi Yar near Keiv

34,000 killed in mass graves

Question 30

Who did the Soviets mass deport as a perceived threat?

Answer 30

Crimean Tatars expelled to Central Asia in May 1944.