Continued our blog discussions-
summer of 1941- the plan of germany was to take over stalingrad, moscow, and leningrad. it failed because the soviets held out and pushed germany back. hitler planned to just invade the soviet union and by december before the winter set, have total control over it. he also thought we wouldnt go into the war at all.
Operation barbarosa- it was the code name for the german invasion of the soviet union. 4.5 million german troops were involved in this, it was 3/4 of hitlers soldiers. soviet union lost more people in this war then we lost in the entire war. it was the biggest military invasion in history.
the battle of stalingrad- was one of the bloodiest battles that happened in the war. 300,000 german soldiers were either killed or taken, more than 100,000 soviets died in the battle.
battle of moscow- about 400,000 german casualties, around a million soviet soldiers. hitler never really made it to moscow.
seige is to surround a city and cause starvation and to bombard the people. the goal was to make people starve to death. there were things like hunger gangs, where when the people are starving, they turn to canibalism and walk through the streets and eating people because they are so hungery. this happened in leningrad.
names in ww2- erwin rommel AKA the dessert fox, he was head of the afrikkan core. he had the option to be killed and he would be a trader or he could commit suicide and die a hero forever, he committed suicide and now is the most famous general in germany. Bernard Montgomery- monty, was from great britian. George patton- he hated montgomery and they wanted to kill eachother, he was a great U.S. general. he died in an auto accident in germany after the war.
Operation Torch- french invasion of africa.
casa blanco conference states that we will not make a deal with germany until they surrender unconditionally. that means they would have to do everything that we told them to do. we would control them completely.
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