Key stats!!!!

Question 1

Oct 1941

Answer 1

• Nazis within 10 miles of Moscow!

Question 2

By Dec 1941

Answer 2

2/5 of USSR pop under Nazi control!

Question 3

USSR produced how many T34 tanks during the war?

Answer 3

80,000 T34 tanks!!

Question 4

1600km Eastern front! Longest in history!

Answer 4

3.5 million German soldiers in active combat

Question 5

USSR outproduced Nazis 1942 / 1943

Answer 5

USSR produced 230 tanks / 700 aircraft a month

Question 6

Military purges

Answer 6

35,000 officials killed, 3/5 marshals, Tukhachevsky dead

Question 7

Lend and Loan scheme

Answer 7

360,000 trucks, over 15 million pairs of boots. Initially 5% of USSR’s GDP, by end of war - 10%

Question 8

In 1941 alone…

Answer 8

3 million Soviet soldiers captured by Germans!!

Question 9

Battle of Kursk

Answer 9

40% of RA man power, 75% of tankage, 3000 miles of trench dug, 400,000 land mines

Question 10

430,000 disgraced soldiers…

Answer 10

made to walk over mine fields - punishment centres

Question 11

stalin not seen for 10 days

Answer 11

following Operation Barbarossa

Question 12

Siege of Leningrad stats!!

Not the proper victory Stalin described it as !!

Answer 12

1 million dead - 1/3 of city’s total population.

Lost 4000 tanks / 3000 aeroplanes

Question 13

Stalin’s cavalry

Answer 13

3 million horses for battle :(

Question 14

Women at work

Answer 14

80% of workers in light industry / 80% in agriculture

Question 15

Huge losses in first 6 months of war!!!

Evidence of initial Nazi success?

Answer 15

Huge losses for USSR: 2.5 million USSR soldiers dead / 3.5 million pow. Including 1 million Russian Jews shot by Nazis.

Nazis occupy Baltic states / White Russia / Ukraine

By Dec 1941, Nazis had driven Russians 600 miles back!!
(But just three years later, the Russians were at the gates of Berlin!)

Question 16

Dec 1941 - Russian counteroffensive…

Answer 16

pushes Nazis 200km back from Moscow!!

Question 17

Race to Berlin

Answer 17

78,000 casualties

Question 18

Operation Barbarossa: Stalin not completely unaware!

Answer 18

Army of 5 million!!

Question 19

The USSR’s anti-tank dogs

Answer 19

Only 16 dogs disabled 12 tanks!

Question 20

Hitler: “We only have to kick in the door…”

Answer 20

“and the whole rotten structure will come down”

Question 21

Battle of Warsaw and subsequent Race to Berlin had how many casualties altogether??

Answer 21

over 400,000 USSR troops killed, more than total British military & civilian death toll for whole war!

Question 22

USSR most likely lost 1/5 of its pre-war population during the war

Answer 22

Soviet casualties around half of the total loss of human life of all the countries involved in ww2!!

(even tho Stalin announced that there had ‘only’ been 7 million Soviet deaths)

Question 23

Order No 227 / 271??? IDK

Answer 23

Use of block detachments - 200,000 dead

‘Mine sweepers’ - 430,000 dead

Question 24

How many factories did the people of the USSR rebuild east of the urals?

Answer 24

1500 factories!!

Over 1 million railway wagons needed!

Question 25

Stalin's reckless assault to recapture Charkov, Ukraine 194

Answer 25

Week of fighting, RA surrounded by Nazis. 1 million captured, 1200 tanks destroyed. Only then did he call off the offensive. Dropped his demand for new territories, new focus: getting foreign allies! USA / GB.

Question 26

Mid 1942 - Nazi resumed offensive. Focus: Caucasus region, Russia's oil. But Stalin's military naivety - assumed Hitler was still really after Moscow! Consequences?

Answer 26

Lost 600,000 prisoners! Thousands of tanks.

Question 27

Battle of Stalingrad

Answer 27

2 million German and USSR troops locked in struggle to death! Hitler ordered for whole of male pop to be killed, female pop deported!

Question 28

How many children were evacuated from Leningrad?

Answer 28

400,000 children evacuated!

Question 29

How many people died under Order No 271 ?

Answer 29

Introduction of blocking detachments - 200,000 dead. | Intro of minesweepers - 430,000 dead

Question 30

Conditions in Siege of Leningrad. Rationing & Food

Answer 30

- 1/3 of needed grain / coal - 1/2 of meat - 1/12 of sugar - Rationing: people only got 10% of their daily calorific intake! - Bread contained only 50% of normal amount of rye

Question 31

Stats on The Road of Life? Frozen Lake Yagoda

Answer 31

200 miles long, took 27 days to build, thousands of LG citizens built in Ice needed to be 200 mm thick to carry weight of trucks On Nov 26th - 8 lorries passed across, gathered 33 tons of food! Big achievement, BUT the city needed 1000 tons of food a day to function. Later, lorries would carry 100 tons of food.

Question 32

Average time survived when fighting at Battle of Stalingrad?

Answer 32

Only 24 hours!!!!!

Question 33

Stalin's military purges during the war = dumb!

Answer 33

By Oct 1941, had purged 300 more commanders!