The Eastern Front, WW2, 1941-1945

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Mind Map on The Eastern Front, WW2, 1941-1945, created by tullyp17 on 09/08/2014.
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The Eastern Front, WW2, 1941-1945
  1. The battle of Stalingrad.
    1. Food supplies cut.
      1. lowered to 1/3 of the daily amount needed by an adult.
        1. Corpses accumulated in the city's streets, parks and other open areas.
        2. Siege of Leningrad lasted almost two and one-half years and cost the lives of an estimated 1,000,000 city residents.
        3. Operation Barberossa.
          1. June 22nd 1941
            1. Operation Barbarossa was based on a massive attack based on blitzkrieg. (Lightning Warfare).
              1. Germany amassed 117 army divisionsRussia amassed 132 army divisions
                1. On June 22, 1941, Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union: three great army groups with over three million German soldiers, 150 divisions, and three thousand tanks smashed across the frontier into Soviet territory
                2. Siege of Leningrad.
                  1. 6,000 Tanks.
                    1. 5,000 Aircraft.
                      1. 2 million Men.
                        1. The siege of Leningrad lasted from September 1941 to 1944. By the end of the siege, some 632,000 people are thought to have died with nearly 4,000 people from Leningrad starving to death on Christmas Day, 1941. The first German artillery shell fell on Leningrad on September 1st, 1941
                        2. Order No. 270&227
                          1. Order 270 was signed on August 16th 1941 Order 227 was released in 1942 but soon withdrawn. Both have to do with Red Army regulations with respect to surrendering to the enemy.
                            1. Special blocking detachments designed to execute fleeing soldiers killed an estimated 150,000 soviet troops over a four year period. 15,00 of which during the battle of Stalingrad.
                            2. Severe Weather Conditions play crucial role in change in momentum
                              1. Unprepared German army in summer uniforms are pushed to the limits as the well prepared soviets are able to launch a counter offensive, this may have been one of the contributing factors to the change of momentum on the eastern front.
                              2. German invasion of Poland, September 1st 1939
                                1. WW2 Commences just two days following the occupation.
                                2. German invasion of Poland September 1st 1939, war commences just two days following the attack
                                  1. Two weeks later, september 17th soviet troops close in on the defeated Polish army.
                                    1. By the end of the month the country is divided between Germany and Russia via the Ribbentrop-Molatov agreement.
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