Stalin 1941-45 Flashcards
Stalin’s reaction to Operation Barbarossa in 1941
Retreat to dacha, creation of Stavka/GKO/Labour Committee
1939
Molotov-Ribbentrop Non-aggression pact
Date of the Battle of Moscow
Mid 1941 to January 1942
Date and length of the Siege of Leningrad
September 1941 to January 1944 (900 days)
Consequences of Pearl Harbour
USA enters war, Lend Lease loans
Lend lease provided…
400,000 vehicles and 17bn tons of war materials
Dates of the Battle of Stalingrad
Autumn 1942 to January 1943
German losses at Stalingrad
91,000 men, General Paulus and 6th Army
What were the three prongs of Operation Barbarossa?
Leningrad, Moscow, Causacus Oil Fields (Stalingrad)
What battle took place in July 1943?
Kursk salient
Soviet strategic fortifications at Kursk included…
Laying 400,000 mines, using 300,000 civilian workers to construct miles of anti tank ditches and barbed wire defences
How did the soviets take advantage at the battle of Kursk?
Making a preemptive attack
German losses at Kursk totalled:
2900 tanks, 70,000 men. Began the retreat
What was the Germans strength at Moscow?
75% tanks, 50% men, 33% Luftwaffe from the total in the USSR
What was the Germans strength at Kursk?
1/3 total force in the USSR
What were partisans responsible for at Kursk?
The derailment of 1000 trains worth of troops
During the battle of Moscow what did partisan groups do?
Enable 100-120 trains carrying supplies to the city per day vs. only 23 for Germans, constructing defences and assembling resistance groups
During the siege of Leningrad how did the population decline?
From 2.5 to 1 million over the winter of ‘41
Calorific intake during Leningrad:
10%
Amount of goods transferred across Lake Lagoda during the Siege of Leningrad:
100tons per day in the height of winter
Deaths per day Leningrad
350
Joint counteroffensive in 1944
Operation Bagration in East and D-day landings in France
Factors for winning the GPW
Economic growth of 1930’s and persistence of economy, social (partisans/ordinary workers), stalin’s concessions and leadership, lend lease, German mistakes
Events of 1945
Suicide of Hitler and defeat of Germany, USA use atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, conference at Yalta takes place
