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| What was Operation Barbarosa? |
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| Code name for German invasion of Soviet Union |
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| Main reasons operation failed |
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Germany now had 2 front war
Russia gets supplies from America
Germany didn't anticipate Russian Winter |
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| Military goal of operation Barbarosa |
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Moscow Trials
Why were they good for Hitler? |
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Led to excecutions
Stalin's great purge
Mostly Trotskyists trying to establish capitalism
Good for Hitler b/c Stalin killed off most of his army |
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Huge Soviet defeats
Retreat to the East
Dismantle small arms factories and move them |
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Soviets destroyed anything that could be used by enemy
Moved East, Stalin gives up on Regions |
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Soviets get supplies from US
Encircle German forces
90,000 German soldiers surrender |
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Red army defenders held for 60 days against Germans
Fortified apartment building
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