| A | B |
|---|
| Why did Hitler invade Russia? | It would serve as a supplier or food and minerals and slave labor for Germany. It would also give Germany Lebensraum |
| What was the name given to the invasion of Russia? | Operation Barbarossa |
| Who had warned Joseph Stalin that Hitler would turn on him? | President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill |
| What was the Commissar Order? | All Soviet Commissars who were captured were to be shot |
| Why was Operation Barbarossa postponed? | It was to begin in May, before winter set in, but Mussolini's misfortunes in Greece caused Hitler to postpone the date. |
| Hitler gave an order that would not allow the troops to do what in their for Russia. | retreat |
| Who did Stalin ask for help when the Russians invaded? | The Allies |
| This was the name of the policy of burning houses, slaughtering cattle, blowing up power plants, polowing under crops, wrecking bridges and roads so they would not fall into enemy hands. | scorched earth policy |
| How may Stalin have hurt his own war effort back in 1937? | He led a purge on Russian generals and many of them were killed. The military may have become a breeding ground of mediocrity with few generals brave enough to show any intiative and were fearful of Stalin |
| Why did the Russians welcome the Germans at first? | They were more afraid of Stalin than they were of Hitler. |
| What did the Germans do that caused many Russians to turn against them. | They murdered many innocent people and were very cruel to anyone they captured. |
| When winter set in and Germany was 70 miles from Moscow, what did the German Generals want to do? | They wanted to call off the attack and renew it in the Spring, but Hitler refused. |
| Were the Germans equipped for a winter war in Russia? | no, their weapons froze, their food froze, their flesh froze. Tankmen and truckers had to runtheir engines every few hours so they wouldn't freeze and burst. Rations were slow coming to the front. German soldiers were eating frozen horses to stay alive |
| On which Russian city did the Germans launch a seige and cut it off from the rest of Russia? | Leningrad |
