WW2

WW2

Attacks
1. 1941 Operation Barbarossa
  1. Attack on Soviet Union
2. Operation Typhoon
  1. Stalin rumoured to be in German hands
3. Operation Blue
  1. Aim to capture Stalingrad
4. Battle of Stalingrad
  1. Lasted six months
  2. 1.9 million people died
5. Operation Uranus
  1. Germans driven from Stalingrad
Life expectancy of Russian soldier 24hrs
December 1943 2/3 German territory occupied
Red army soldiers raped/murdered Germans
Women made up majority of workforce
1. Working conditions poor
2. Machine work done by hand
3. Workers on rations
4. If workers were 20 minutes late - handed over to police
20 million Russians died
20 million Russians fled
85 million Russians under German control
Destruction of own industrial equipment
1. Prevent Germans having it
2. 25% of pre war industrial equipment destroyed
German army burned crops, machinery, bridges and killed cattle
January 1942 Germans had control of 1/3 industry
1941 No electricity to general population
Government took 90% of collective farm produce
Why Russia won
1. Germany's weakness
  1. British and Americans opened front against Germany in France
  2. Alliance divided Hitler's attention
  3. Air force focused on British
  4. Economy lacked direction
  5. Unable to produce armaments on Russia's scale
  6. High living standards
  7. Hitler too self confident
  8. Unprepared
  9. Overstretched army
  10. Hitler thought his economy was 4years behind schedule
  11. Goering's mistakes hindered war production
2. Stalin's tactics
  1. Relocated industry to East
  2. 1942 56% of Russia's income devoted to war
  3. 1941-44 Armaments doubled
  4. Stalin called people to defend motherland rather than socialism
  5. Encouraged people to faith
  6. Highly effective central planning
  7. Red army received help from Americans
    1. Food supplies
  8. Lend lease
  9. Laying siege in Leningrad allowed Russia to regroup

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