Key stats!!!! Flashcards

1
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Oct 1941

A
  • Nazis within 10 miles of Moscow!
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2
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By Dec 1941

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2/5 of USSR pop under Nazi control!

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3
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USSR produced how many T34 tanks during the war?

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80,000 T34 tanks!!

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4
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1600km Eastern front! Longest in history!

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3.5 million German soldiers in active combat

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5
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USSR outproduced Nazis 1942 / 1943

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USSR produced 230 tanks / 700 aircraft a month

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6
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Military purges

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35,000 officials killed, 3/5 marshals, Tukhachevsky dead

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7
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Lend and Loan scheme

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360,000 trucks, over 15 million pairs of boots. Initially 5% of USSR’s GDP, by end of war - 10%

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8
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In 1941 alone…

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3 million Soviet soldiers captured by Germans!!

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9
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Battle of Kursk

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40% of RA man power, 75% of tankage, 3000 miles of trench dug, 400,000 land mines

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10
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430,000 disgraced soldiers…

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made to walk over mine fields - punishment centres

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11
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stalin not seen for 10 days

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following Operation Barbarossa

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12
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Siege of Leningrad stats!!

Not the proper victory Stalin described it as !!

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1 million dead - 1/3 of city’s total population.

Lost 4000 tanks / 3000 aeroplanes

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13
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Stalin’s cavalry

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3 million horses for battle :(

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14
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Women at work

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80% of workers in light industry / 80% in agriculture

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15
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Huge losses in first 6 months of war!!!

Evidence of initial Nazi success?

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Huge losses for USSR: 2.5 million USSR soldiers dead / 3.5 million pow. Including 1 million Russian Jews shot by Nazis.

Nazis occupy Baltic states / White Russia / Ukraine

By Dec 1941, Nazis had driven Russians 600 miles back!!
(But just three years later, the Russians were at the gates of Berlin!)

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16
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Dec 1941 - Russian counteroffensive…

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pushes Nazis 200km back from Moscow!!

17
Q

Race to Berlin

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78,000 casualties

18
Q

Operation Barbarossa: Stalin not completely unaware!

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Army of 5 million!!

19
Q

The USSR’s anti-tank dogs

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Only 16 dogs disabled 12 tanks!

20
Q

Hitler: “We only have to kick in the door…”

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“and the whole rotten structure will come down”

21
Q

Battle of Warsaw and subsequent Race to Berlin had how many casualties altogether??

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over 400,000 USSR troops killed, more than total British military & civilian death toll for whole war!

22
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USSR most likely lost 1/5 of its pre-war population during the war

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Soviet casualties around half of the total loss of human life of all the countries involved in ww2!!

(even tho Stalin announced that there had ‘only’ been 7 million Soviet deaths)

23
Q

Order No 227 / 271??? IDK

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Use of block detachments - 200,000 dead

‘Mine sweepers’ - 430,000 dead

24
Q

How many factories did the people of the USSR rebuild east of the urals?

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1500 factories!!

Over 1 million railway wagons needed!

25
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Stalin’s reckless assault to recapture Charkov, Ukraine 194

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Week of fighting, RA surrounded by Nazis.
1 million captured, 1200 tanks destroyed.
Only then did he call off the offensive.
Dropped his demand for new territories, new focus: getting foreign allies! USA / GB.

26
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Mid 1942 - Nazi resumed offensive. Focus: Caucasus region, Russia’s oil.

But Stalin’s military naivety - assumed Hitler was still really after Moscow!

Consequences?

A

Lost 600,000 prisoners! Thousands of tanks.

27
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Battle of Stalingrad

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2 million German and USSR troops locked in struggle to death!

Hitler ordered for whole of male pop to be killed, female pop deported!

28
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How many children were evacuated from Leningrad?

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400,000 children evacuated!

29
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How many people died under Order No 271 ?

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Introduction of blocking detachments - 200,000 dead.

Intro of minesweepers - 430,000 dead

30
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Conditions in Siege of Leningrad. Rationing & Food

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  • 1/3 of needed grain / coal
  • 1/2 of meat
  • 1/12 of sugar
  • Rationing: people only got 10% of their daily calorific intake!
  • Bread contained only 50% of normal amount of rye
31
Q

Stats on The Road of Life?

Frozen Lake Yagoda

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200 miles long, took 27 days to build, thousands of LG citizens built in

Ice needed to be 200 mm thick to carry weight of trucks

On Nov 26th - 8 lorries passed across, gathered 33 tons of food! Big achievement, BUT the city needed 1000 tons of food a day to function. Later, lorries would carry 100 tons of food.

32
Q

Average time survived when fighting at Battle of Stalingrad?

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Only 24 hours!!!!!

33
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Stalin’s military purges during the war = dumb!

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By Oct 1941, had purged 300 more commanders!