TGPW - Key dates!!

Question 1

Operation Barbarossa

Answer 1

June 22nd 4am USSR 1941. Surprise German invasion!

Question 2

Siege of Leningrad (Kiev had fallen quickly)

Answer 2

8th Sep 1941 - Jan 27th 1944. 872 days!!

Question 3

Battle of Stalingrad (6 months)

Answer 3

Aug 23rd 1942 - Feb 2nd 1943.

Initially Nazis win predicted! Told they’d be home by xmas

Question 4

Battle of Kursk

Answer 4

July 1943

Question 5

Operation Bagration

Answer 5

June 1944

Question 6

Order 270 - No surrender!

Answer 6

Aug 1941

Question 7

Order 227 - Not a step back!

Answer 7

July 1942

Question 8

Nazis within 10 miles of Moscow!

Answer 8

Oct 1941

Question 9

Russian counteroffensive pushing Nazis 200km back!

Answer 9

Dec 1941

Question 10

USSR starts to outproduce Nazis!

Answer 10

1942 / 1943

Question 11

2/5 of USSR pop under Nazi control!

Answer 11

By Dec 1941!

Question 12

Pre-war: Stalin’s purge of the military

Answer 12

Yezhovshchina - 1936-1939

Question 13

Viktor Sorge warns Stalin of dawn invasion on June 22nd

Churchill warns Stalin of German invasion

Answer 13

15th May 1941

11th June 1941

Question 14

July 3rd Speech

Answer 14

unsurprisingly on july 3rd

Question 15

Stalin establishes Stavka (military general staff)

Stalin establishes GKO (state committee of defence)

Answer 15

Stavka established 23rd June 1941
GKO established 30th June 1941

one week between!

Question 16

Stalin makes himself leader of Stavka

Answer 16

August 8th

Question 17

Who was in the GKO?

Answer 17

Stalin / Beria / Molotov / Malankov / Voroshilov