may 3 2010

[3Cuddie-Hudson]

Operation Barbarosa-greatest land war recorded in history-began at 3:30 am on June 22, 1941-initial german front was 995 miles long, and another 620 miles along the finnish border- main front would soon expand to 1490 milews and extend to a depth of over 600 miles- By end of year, 3,500,000 red army soldiers were in captivity and 4 million had died

German Wehrmacht(army) German Army in USSR was split: Army group north whose main goal was Leningrad-Army Group Centre whose main goal was Moscow- Army Group South whose main goals were Stalingrad

Hitler wanted to get to the Caucasus mountains

Battle of Leningrad- august 30th 1941- germans took over leningrads railroads cutting them off from rest of world-only way for leningrad to get supplies was through airdrop or crossing lake Ladoga-

Erwin Rommel- Desert Fox
Bernard Montgomery-Monty-brittish
George Patton-US general

Invasion of Sicily and italy-

Dwight Eisenhower-head honcho

battle of philippines- Dec. 7 1941- japanese attacked many islands on dec 7.-

Doolitle's raid-mission at the end of the movie pearl harbor- took bombers off an aircraft carrier and bombed japan-

Coral sea