Do Now: Friday 4/26/13 “Weighing his Options” Read and compare the offers that Stalin had to choose from. Answer the corresponding questions.

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Do Now: Friday 4/26/13 “Weighing his Options” Read and compare the offers that Stalin had to choose from. Answer the corresponding questions.

Siege of Leningrad 1941 Operation Barbarossa June 22, 1941 LARGEST German military operation of WWII GOALS: Destruction of Soviet military force Permanent elimination of Communism Seizure of prime land within Soviet borders (lebensraum) Annihilation of Communists & Jews Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing squads) Rid those deemed to be dangerous of long-term German rule of Soviet territory Soviets refused warnings of German troop buildup along their western borders

Siege of Leningrad 1941  Fail to collapse as Germans anticipated  Soviets suffered catastrophic losses in first 6 weeks  Germans reach Leningrad late September 1941  Reach outskirts of Moscow early December  EXPECTED fast Soviet surrender  Germans = exhausted  NOT PREPARED FOR WINTER  Not enough food, supplies, medicine  Advanced faster than their supply lines  December 6, 1941 massive Soviet counter attack  Drove Germans back from Moscow in panic

Winter of Battle for Stalingrad in summer 1942  TURNINGPOINT Germans halted at Stalingrad on Volta River mid- November 1942 Encircled German troops (220,000 soldiers) February 1943 – Germany’s surviving troops (91,000) surrendered By 1944 Soviets pushed Germans back to East Prussia By January 1945 banks of the Oder in eastern Germany