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Fall 1940-Fall 1941

Axis Powers Allied Powers Germany Italy Japan Romania Bulgaria Hungary Libya Allied Powers Great Britain (and her colonies) French colonies

Mussolini trying to create a new Roman Empire Attacks North Africa… Attacks Greece... Has to get help from Hitler

Erwin Rommel “Desert Fox”

Operation Barbarossa Hitler always intended to invade the Soviet Union (Mein Kampf) June 22, 1941 Germany attacks the USSR 3 million troops quickly take 500,000 square miles.

Siege of Leningrad –Sept. 1941 Germans surround city for 17months… Population starves but doesn’t give up… “jellied meat” Over one million civilians die… World’s largest cemetery – 500,000 dead

Hitler is prepared for a 10 week war Soviets quickly retreat using the “scorched earth” policy – 2 ½ million die… Soviets use guerrilla tactics Germans advance to the outskirts of Moscow….. but then…..

Russian Winter Germans have no… Temperatures dip to -30 degrees Oil in the tanks froze Soviets counterattack Just like Napoleon… First time in WWII….

Battle for Moscow Stalin rushed his best commander, Georgi Zhukov, to defend Moscow Zhukov waged a delaying defense in front of Moscow; In the meantime he pulled reinforcements from as far away as Siberia to defend Moscow Zhukov’s plan was to allow the Germans to exhaust themselves and then go on the offensive

Rundstedt, the German commander of Army Group South, ordered a retreat and Hitler fired him Field Marshall Walther von Reichenau replaced Rundstedt and confirmed the withdraw order and then suffered a heart attack Hitler was in the midst of a high command crisis and lost confidence in his generals Reichenau

December 6, 1941 Soviet Army Counterattacks