Flashcards
Operation Barbarossa
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Operation Barbarossa began on
July 22 1941
July 22 1940
June 22 1942
June 22 1941
Match german Army Group with its commander
Army Group North
Wilhem Ritter von Leeb
Army Group Centre
Feodor Von Bock
Army Group South
Gerd von Runstedt
Brest Litovsk falls after a four day siege. Manstein’s panzers of Army Group North enter Daugavpils
August 12 1941
May 21 1942
June 26 1941
June 28 1942
Army Group North captures Ostrov and reaches the pre-1939 Russian frontier.
June 29 1941
July 4 1941
September 12 1941
August 28 1941
On .... Army Group .... ends Soviet resistance in the Minsk pocket and captures Vitebsk.
A breakthrough in the Centre on July 15 1941 leads to the encirclement and fall of ...., cutting off a Soviet concentration of .... men.
German offensive for the capture of Moscow was called:
Operation Hurricane
Operation Typhoon
Operation Maelstrom
Opetation Cyclone
German long-range artillery begins to bombard Leningrad
September 7 1941
September 5 1941
September 14 1941
September 1 1941
Living space for Germans to the east
Lebensraum
As Russian army retreated, they destroyed crops, buildings and anything the Germans might use
Scorched Earth
The siege of Leningrad began on:
September 22 1941
September 5 1941
September 15 1941
September 18 1941
A a turning point in the war was:
Battle of Leningrad
Battle of Kursk
Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of Moscow
