Battle Of Stalingrad
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The Eastern Front & The Battle of Stalingrad
Quick Review WWII Starts September 1939 Summer of 1940 France Falls Battle of Britain Begins Britain fights Germany virtually alone!
December 7, 1941 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor USA enters the war
Nazi-Soviet Pact 1939
Operation Barbarossa June 22, 1941 Hitler breaks Nazi-Soviet Pact and invades Russia. 4 million German soldiers invade Russia. Largest invasion force in history.
Front stretches over 1,000 km from the Baltic to Black Sea.
Nazi Germany at it’s Height 1942
Axis and Allies Axis
Allies
Germany
Britain
Italy
France
Japan
Russia United States
Scorched Earth Policy Military strategy that destroys anything that might be useful to the enemy by a retreating army. Retreating Russians burned down their own homes, fields, killed livestock, blew up own buildings. Remaining Russian citizens and advancing German army have no shelter or food to aid them.
Siege of Leningrad Leningrad=St. Petersburg Began on September 8, 1941
Lasted 872 Days Extreme famine in the city 2,000 people arrested for cannibalism German’s eventually defeated.
Battle of Stalingrad August 23, 1942 Battle lasts 6 months
Major turning point in the war! Russians defeat Nazi’s and begin pushing them back to Germany.
Over 2 million casualties
Quick Review WWII Starts September 1939 Summer of 1940 France Falls Battle of Britain Begins Britain fights Germany virtually alone!
December 7, 1941 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor USA enters the war
Nazi-Soviet Pact 1939
Operation Barbarossa June 22, 1941 Hitler breaks Nazi-Soviet Pact and invades Russia. 4 million German soldiers invade Russia. Largest invasion force in history.
Front stretches over 1,000 km from the Baltic to Black Sea.
Nazi Germany at it’s Height 1942
Axis and Allies Axis
Allies
Germany
Britain
Italy
France
Japan
Russia United States
Scorched Earth Policy Military strategy that destroys anything that might be useful to the enemy by a retreating army. Retreating Russians burned down their own homes, fields, killed livestock, blew up own buildings. Remaining Russian citizens and advancing German army have no shelter or food to aid them.
Siege of Leningrad Leningrad=St. Petersburg Began on September 8, 1941
Lasted 872 Days Extreme famine in the city 2,000 people arrested for cannibalism German’s eventually defeated.
Battle of Stalingrad August 23, 1942 Battle lasts 6 months
Major turning point in the war! Russians defeat Nazi’s and begin pushing them back to Germany.
Over 2 million casualties
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