Questions and Answers
Operation Barbarossa
1.
Operation Barbarossa began on
June 22 1941
Match german Army Group with its commander
2.
Army Group North
Wilhem Ritter von Leeb
3.
Army Group Centre
Feodor Von Bock
4.
Army Group South
Gerd von Runstedt
5.
Brest Litovsk falls after a four day siege. Manstein’s panzers of Army Group North enter Daugavpils
June 26 1941
6.
Army Group North captures Ostrov and reaches the pre-1939 Russian frontier.
July 4 1941
7.
On .... Army Group .... ends Soviet resistance in the Minsk pocket and captures Vitebsk.
8.
A breakthrough in the Centre on July 15 1941 leads to the encirclement and fall of ...., cutting off a Soviet concentration of .... men.
9.
German offensive for the capture of Moscow was called:
Operation Typhoon
10.
German long-range artillery begins to bombard Leningrad
September 1 1941
11.
Living space for Germans to the east
Lebensraum
12.
As Russian army retreated, they destroyed crops, buildings and anything the Germans might use
Scorched Earth
13.
The siege of Leningrad began on:
September 15 1941
14.
A a turning point in the war was:
Battle of Stalingrad