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Operation Barbarossa
All questions and answers from this set. Test your knowledge of German invasion of Soviet Russia during II World War.
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Question 1
Operation Barbarossa began on
June 22 1941
Question 2
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
Question 3
Brest Litovsk falls after a four day siege. Manstein’s panzers of Army Group North enter Daugavpils
June 26 1941
Question 4
Army Group North captures Ostrov and reaches the pre-1939 Russian frontier.
July 4 1941
Question 5
On .... Army Group .... ends Soviet resistance in the Minsk pocket and captures Vitebsk.
Question 6
A breakthrough in the Centre on July 15 1941 leads to the encirclement and fall of ...., cutting off a Soviet concentration of .... men.
Question 7
German offensive for the capture of Moscow was called:
Operation Typhoon
Question 8
German long-range artillery begins to bombard Leningrad
September 1 1941
Question 9
Living space for Germans to the east
Lebensraum
Question 10
As Russian army retreated, they destroyed crops, buildings and anything the Germans might use
Scorched Earth
Question 11
The siege of Leningrad began on:
September 15 1941
Question 12
A a turning point in the war was:
Battle of Stalingrad
