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AQA A-Level History 2N Russia Questionsand answers
Operation Barbarossa - codename for German invasion of USSR, prepared since
Oct 1940, began 22 June 1941
Yugoslavia - country, crisis here that delayed Barbarossa
blitzkrieg - lightning war
3 groups - number of German army groups, one north, one south and east, one
central
Molotov - Soviet foreign minister, made radio broadcast before Stalin
Kiev - city, Stalin helped cause defeat by giving late permission to retreat, 19 Sept
1941
Stavka - military command of USSR in war, included Timoshenko, Zhukov, Molotov,
Voroshilov
GKO - State Defence Committee, supreme political war cabinet
,AQA A-Level History 2N Russia Questions
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Richard Sorge - spy, warned USSR of Japanese intentions
Pearl Harbour - Japan attacked here, Dec 1941
20km - distance from Moscow that Germans stopped, 27 Nov 1941
Case Blue - German attack on Caucasus, 28 June 1941
Rostov - port on Don river, fell 24 July 1942, liberated 24th Feb 1943
Minsk and Smolensk - Soviets encircled and defeated here
665,000 captured - number of Soviet troops captured near Kiev
0.5mln - number of surrenders at Kiev when it fell
Molotov and Beria - 2 people, tried to negotiate compromise peace with Germany
,AQA A-Level History 2N Russia Questions
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360 divisions - actual number of Soviet divisions
200 divisions - Germans predicted this number of Soviet divisions
Stalingrad - Russian city, previously Tsaritsyn
German Sixth Army - army that lost at Stalingrad, surrendered 2 Feb 1943
90% - % of Stalingrad Germans had in late summer 1942
Volga - river that supply boats were sent across to supply Soviets at Stalingrad
Operation Citadel - codename for Kursk offensive, began 4 July 1943
Battle of Prokhorovka - largest ever tank battle, 12 July 1943, Soviets won
Kursk - Russian city, Hitler called off offensive there, 13 July 1943
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T-34 tank - Soviet tank, durable, easy to repair and maintain
Tehran Conference, 28 Nov 1943 - Big Three met here
Big Three - term for Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt
972 days - days of siege of Leningrad, 8 Sept 1941-27 Jan 1944
Kharkiv, Ukraine - city that turned hands 3 times
1700 towns and cities - no. of towns and cities devastated
70,000 villages - number of villages devastated
12mln civilian deaths - no. of civilian deaths by 1945
600,000 - no. of deaths in Leningrad from hunger and cold
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