Great Patriotic War Flashcards
What was the code name for the invasion of the USSR
When did preparation begin?
Operation Barbarossa
Oct 1940
When was Operation Barbarossa meant to launch?
When was the new launch?
Why was it delayed?
1st June
22nd June
Yugoslavian Crisis resulting in a blitzkrieg
How did Germany attack Russia?
What the aim?
Three huge army groups
Towards Leningrad, Ukraine and Moscow
Aim to eradicate commission and liberate the Russians
Name four examples of how Stalin/Russia was unprepared for war
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
How did Stalin react to the German invasion?
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
What poor leadership decision did Stalin make about Kiev?
How many troops surrendered at Kiev?
Sept 1941 refused retreat on Kiev until it was too late
19th 1/2 a million
Name Stalin’s War cabinet
Stavka
Name the master Spy
Richard Sorge
Name the three distinct phases of the war
June 412-Summer 42- huge loses
1942 - Summer 43- stabilizing
1943-Summer 45- offensive
After how many weeks did the germans generals think the war was virtually won and Moscow to be captured?
two weeks
Moscow captured by the end of August
When was Leningrad surrounded and the siege began?
8th Sept 1941
When were German troops halted from Moscow and how far away?
Dec 5th
20km away
When did a compromised peace negation began?
Who led them?
15th Oct 1941
Led by Molotov and Beria
Hitlers generals had underestimated the Soviet Divisions? How ?
Predicted 200
Actual is 360
When was Case Blue and what was it?
1941
Attack on Caucasus
When was the lowest point of the was for the USSR?
Fall of Rostov on the Don
July 1942
What was the battle that both Stalin and Lenin became obsessed with?
The Battle of Leningrad
In Summer 42 how much of Stalingrad did the germans occupy?
When did the balance change in the Battle in Leningrad?
Germany occupied 9/10th
October
German 6th Army was cut off and encircled and Hitler refused them to retreat
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?
Battle of Prokhorovka
Operation Citadel called off 13th July
Red army won with the T-34 tanks
Name the victories for Red Army in August 1943 to December 1944
Reconquering Ukraine
Lifting the siege of Leningrad
Invading Poland,Lithuania Romania and Hungary
When was the first conference of the Big three and where?
Nov 1943 at Tehran
When was the bomb plot on Hitlers life?
July 1944
When did Stalin and Churchill meet in Moscow?
Oct 1944
How long was the siege of Leningrad and when did it end?
972 days
27th January 1944
How many Soviet towns, cities and villages were devastated by war?
1700 towns and cities
70,000 villages
How many people died from hunger and cold during leningrad siege?
600,000
By 1945 what was the total civically death record?
12 million +
How did Germany treat the captured Soviet Countries
Soldiers POW
Civilians sent to German factories
execution of commissars
massacre + deportation of Jews
Name the significant massacre of the Jews
Babi Yar near Keiv
34,000 killed in mass graves
Who did the Soviets mass deport as a perceived threat?
Crimean Tatars expelled to Central Asia in May 1944.
