Stalin 1941-45

Question 0

Stalin’s reaction to Operation Barbarossa in 1941

Answer 0

Retreat to dacha, creation of Stavka/GKO/Labour Committee

Question 1

1939

Answer 1

Molotov-Ribbentrop Non-aggression pact

Question 2

Date of the Battle of Moscow

Answer 2

Mid 1941 to January 1942

Question 3

Date and length of the Siege of Leningrad

Answer 3

September 1941 to January 1944 (900 days)

Question 4

Consequences of Pearl Harbour

Answer 4

USA enters war, Lend Lease loans

Question 5

Lend lease provided…

Answer 5

400,000 vehicles and 17bn tons of war materials

Question 6

Dates of the Battle of Stalingrad

Answer 6

Autumn 1942 to January 1943

Question 7

German losses at Stalingrad

Answer 7

91,000 men, General Paulus and 6th Army

Question 8

What were the three prongs of Operation Barbarossa?

Answer 8

Leningrad, Moscow, Causacus Oil Fields (Stalingrad)

Question 9

What battle took place in July 1943?

Answer 9

Kursk salient

Question 10

Soviet strategic fortifications at Kursk included…

Answer 10

Laying 400,000 mines, using 300,000 civilian workers to construct miles of anti tank ditches and barbed wire defences

Question 11

How did the soviets take advantage at the battle of Kursk?

Answer 11

Making a preemptive attack

Question 12

German losses at Kursk totalled:

Answer 12

2900 tanks, 70,000 men. Began the retreat

Question 13

What was the Germans strength at Moscow?

Answer 13

75% tanks, 50% men, 33% Luftwaffe from the total in the USSR

Question 14

What was the Germans strength at Kursk?

Answer 14

1/3 total force in the USSR

Question 15

What were partisans responsible for at Kursk?

Answer 15

The derailment of 1000 trains worth of troops

Question 16

During the battle of Moscow what did partisan groups do?

Answer 16

Enable 100-120 trains carrying supplies to the city per day vs. only 23 for Germans, constructing defences and assembling resistance groups

Question 17

During the siege of Leningrad how did the population decline?

Answer 17

From 2.5 to 1 million over the winter of ‘41

Question 18

Calorific intake during Leningrad:

Answer 18

10%

Question 19

Amount of goods transferred across Lake Lagoda during the Siege of Leningrad:

Answer 19

100tons per day in the height of winter

Question 20

Deaths per day Leningrad

Answer 20

350

Question 21

Joint counteroffensive in 1944

Answer 21

Operation Bagration in East and D-day landings in France

Question 22

Factors for winning the GPW

Answer 22

Economic growth of 1930’s and persistence of economy, social (partisans/ordinary workers), stalin’s concessions and leadership, lend lease, German mistakes

Question 23

Events of 1945

Answer 23

Suicide of Hitler and defeat of Germany, USA use atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, conference at Yalta takes place

Question 24

Key results of Yalta conference 1945

Answer 24

Establishment of UN, division of Germany

Question 25

Western historians focus on reasons the USSR won the GPW

Answer 25

German failings

Question 26

Russian historians interpretations of why USSR won the GPW

Answer 26

Strength and persistence of soviet people

Question 27

Total losses:

Answer 27

30 million deaths, 19 civilian 9 military

Question 28

Number of homeless people

Answer 28

25 million

Question 29

Number of villages destroyed

Answer 29

70,000

Question 30

Number of towns destroyed

Answer 30

1200

Question 31

Number of people deported from Baltic States

Answer 31

400,000

Question 32

Industry following the war…

Answer 32

70% production capacity lost, working week: 12 hrs, 6 days, 10mil evacuated East with the relocation of industry to the Urals

Question 33

Agriculture following the war:

Answer 33

100,000 kolkhozy destroyed

Question 34

Party during the war

Answer 34

75% joined armed forces