Transcript The 2nd World War - American University in Bulgaria

The Soviet Union
June
nd
22
1941.
 Operation Barbarossa - the code name of Germany’s
invasion in the Soviet Union (1941.)
 Named after Frederick Barbarossa.
 Involved 600.000 motor vehicles and 750.000 horses.
The major battle of the 2nd World War
Between Nazi Germany and Soviet Union

 Was fought for the control of Stalingrad/Volgograd
 Lasted 200 days and 200 nights from 17th of July
1942-2 February 1943.
 The decisive battle in the history of the WW2
Allies
Total: 841,000
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750,000 killed
91,000 captured
900 aircraft
1,500 tanks
6,000 artillery
Axis
Total: 1,129,619
 478,741 killed
 650,878 wounded
 40,000 civilians dead
 4,341 tanks
 15,728 artillery
 2,769 combat aircraft
Georgy
Zhukov.
18961974
 The son of peasants.
 Was an officer and the leader of the Red Army.
 Devoted his life to liberate the USSR from the Axis
Powers.
 At the outbreak of the WW1 received the 1st St. George
cross for a bravery.
 Died at the age of 77.
 Cold(Germans were not prepared for strict Russia
winter)
 Starvation
 Ongoing Soviet attacks
German army could not be reinforced.
 Duration: July 5th – August 23 (49days.)
 Kursk Strategic Defensive operation (5-23July 1943)
 Orel Strategic Offensive operation(12 July-18August
1943)
 Belgorod-Kharkov Offensive operation(3-23 August
1943)
Germans called the two offensive operations as the
Operation Citadel
 German offensive
phase:
5July- 16 July 1943
 Soviet offensive
phase:
12 July-23 Aug. 1943
Germany
Operation Citadel:
54,182 men
323 tanks and assault guns
159 aircraft
~500 guns
Battle of Kursk:
203,000 casualties
720 tanks and assault guns
681 aircraft
guns unknown
The USSR.
Operation Citadel:[
177,847 men
1,614 – 1,956 tanks and
assault guns
459 – 1,961 aircraft
3,929 guns
Battle of Kursk:[
863,303 casualties
6,064 tanks and assault
guns
1,626 aircraft
5,244 guns
The main reason:
 To block the supply of food/water.
 Leningrad had a political status of a former capital of
Russia
 The main source of the Soviet Baltic Fleet.
 Numerous arms factories, that produced the majority
of weapons.
Operation Overlord.
(Jun 6 th -mid July 1944.)
The “Neptune” operation.
The “Cobra” operation.
6.06.1944-1.07.1944(Day-D) 25.07.1944 31.07.1944.
Allie’s army landed
Allie’s army withdraw
on the Normand territory.
from the Normand
territory.
The USSR.
Germany.
Casualties.
 361.367 men
Casualties.
 92.000-100000 killed
 1.997 tanks
 220.000 wounded
 2.108 artillery pieces
 22.000 millitary
 917 aircraft.
 22.000 civilians.
 Born in Nizhny Novgorod.
 Studied at Russian Orthodox Seminary.
 Quit studying after the Russia
Revolution and join the Red Army in
1919 and the Communist party in 1930.
 Is notorious for betraying the Soviet
army and shifting to the German army
in.
Andrey
Andreyevich Vlasov.
(1900-1946).
 Decisive Soviet and Polish victory.
 The capture of Berlin.
 Suicide of Hitler.
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The pact of Germany’s capitulation was signed in
Karlshorst on 9th of May 1945.
 This day is considered as the Day of Victory and is
celebrated annually in all post-soviet countries.
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