The War
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- Created on: 01-05-13 20:26
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- The War
- Foreign policy
- Survival not confrontational
- German threat
- Hitlers hatred of communism
- Stalin searched for western allies
- Joined LofN 1934
- Anti-Comintern pact 1936
- Italy/Japan/Germany
- The Munich Agreement 1938
- Britain France Italy Germany APPEASMENT
- Stalin reached out to form alliance with Britain andFrance
- Nazi-Soviet pact 1939
- Hitler sent foreign minister
- The secret protocol SPLIT POLAND
- by 1941 reclaimed all land lost in WW!
- 10 year non aggresion pact
- Political triumph false sense of security
- Nazi-Soviet pact 1939
- Mein Kampf wanting to rexpand east to Russia
- ignored signs and Russia not ready for 1941c atttack
- German invasion 1941
- ignored evidence of German attack
- War on two-fronts
- Stalin victim of own propaganda Nazi-Soviet political triumph
- Stalin remained in Dacha two days after German invasion and gave no instructions
- Purges left army weak
- Operation Barbarossa 1941
- three million troops
- Matched Germany
- 4000 tanks
- 4x as many
- 3000 aircraft
- 3x as many
- Failure
- Stalins Leadership
- 'Mother Russia'
- Stayed in Moscow 1941
- Drew Germany deeper into Russia
- Army became weak and Stalin counterattacked
- Lateness of attack
- delayed by 6 weeks due to war on two fronts - Winter became a problem
- General Winter 1941-42
- Russians used to freezing conditions
- Russians didn't have correct clothing or tyres in tanks
- Nazi Racism
- Russians originally welcomed Germans due to hatred of Stalinism
- Nazis didnt utilise this and where brutal towards Russians
- Became patriotic
- 'Mother Russia'
- Became patriotic
- Nazis didnt utilise this and where brutal towards Russians
- Russians originally welcomed Germans due to hatred of Stalinism
- Peasants
- Scorched Land campaign
- used to harsh conditions 5YP and xcollectivisation
- end of 1941 1/2 soviet population in German hands
- 40% railway no longer useable
- 25 million died in famine
- Lend-Lease
- 17 million tonnes of war material
- recovery and expansion of railway
- wartime reorginisation
- 2500 factories moved east
- 1.5 million railway cars transported in
- consciption
- 1944 2 million women in army
- 1942 half natincome on war
- Stalins Leadership
- three million troops
- Statistics
- 1941-42 Red army lost 15000 men each day
- 51/4 million troops PoW
- The battle of Stalingrad 1942-43
- Symbolic as Stalins name
- Russians instructed to defend till the death
- 20,000 german troops died
- Hitlers most successful army 6th army destroyed
- over 1 million soviet troops killed life expectancy of soldier at the front 24 hours
- Peasants
- Scorched Land campaign
- used to harsh conditions 5YP and xcollectivisation
- end of 1941 1/2 soviet population in German hands
- 40% railway no longer useable
- 25 million died in famine
- Peasants
- The Battle of Kursk 1943
- Operation Bagration
- The siege of Leningrad 1941-1944
- 900 days
- 226 people arrested for cannibalism
- strength of the people
- Foreign policy
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