Impact of WW2

Mainly a timeline of key battles and losses etc.

When did Hitley start planning to invade Russia

Oct 1940

When was operation barbarossa?

22nd June 1941

A italian fuck up in Yugoslavia delayed Operation Barbarossa by how many weeks?

3

Who made the first war-time speech?

Molotov

When did Stalin give his first wartime adress?

• 3rd July

• 11 days late!

When did Kyiv fall + Ukraine captured by Germany?

19th Sept 1941

How many troops were captured at Kyiv (as a result of Stalin refusing any retreat)

665,000

Babyn Yar

• 33,771 jews murdered

• 29-30 Sept 1941

• 100,000 more murdered over ww2

When was the Moscow Panic?

Oct 1941

What was the supreme political war cabinet, that co-ordinated military production?

State Defense Committee

What was main military command (subordinate to GKO)

Stakha

When was Order 227?

26 July 1942

When was ‘Not One Step Backward’?

• Order 227

• 26 July 1942

How many days was Leningrad under seige?

872

When did German troops halt … km from Moscow?

• Nov 1941

• 20km

What was the German offensive towards Caucus oilfields and when?

• Case Blue

• June 1942

When did Rostov on Don fall?

24 July 1942

When did which German commander surrender at Stalingrad?

• 31st Jan 1943

• Paulus

How many people died in Leningrad?

600,000

How many towns were destroyed?

1,700

When were the Crimean Tartars expelled, and by who?

• May 1944

• Beria

How many villages were destroyed

70,000

How many trains shifted factories to the Urals?

20,000

how many factories were moved across the Urals?

1,532 factories

Which Tank was mass-produced by the USSR?

T-34

What and when was the largest tank battle in history?

• Prokhorovka

• July 1943

when did the soviets take Berlin?

2 May 1945

Which two marshals raced to capture Berlin?

• Zhukov

• Konev