The Battle of Stalingrad

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The Battle of Stalingrad

• Topic The battle of Stalingrad
• Key Ideas Importance of Stalingrad, Operation
  Blue, Operation Saturn, Operation Uranus
• Key Conclusions to me made it was a turning
  point in the war where Germany lost

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Groups

• Natasya, Jessica O, Davin, Michelle H
• Jessica S, Richie, Mikaela, Reyner
• Dave, Nicole, Michelle K No key point 4
• Jason, Winda, Claudia, Michael
• Sites
• www.world-war-2.info/battles
• www.historylearningsite.co.uk/famous_battles_of_wo
  rld_war_two.htm
• Book- read and discuss

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You will be graded on

• Individual Slides /10 per student
• Information /10
• Relevant Pictures /10
• Presentation /10
• Creativity and Structure /10
• Total /50

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The Battle of Stalingrad

• What
• A battle between Germany its allies and the
  Soviet Union, for Stalingrad
• When
• Winter, 1942-1943
• Effects
• Germany lost their old reputation as being
  invincible

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Pictures of the Battle of Stalingrad
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Key Fact 1 Importance of Stalingrad
Name Claudia 9B
Points /5

• -Major industrial city on banks of Volga River
• -Also Russias center of communication
• -(Vital transport route between Caspian Sea and
  Northern Russia)
• -Control of the city would cut Soviet transport
  links with Southern Russia using the Volga River

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Importance of Stalingrad (continued)
Name Claudia 9B
Points /5

• If Germany won Stalingrad, it would also allow
  them to get the rich oil fields of Caucasus
• It was also Stalins city.
• Hitler wanted to capture the city that had the
  name of his enemy
• Citys capture would also be a propaganda
  achievement. It would have been good for Hitler,
  for people to know he had beaten his enemy

Caucasus oil fields 1942
Stalingrad 1942
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Operation Blue
Name Jason 9B
Points /5
- Code name for the attack that Adolf Hitler
ordered on the Soviet Unions oil fields in the
Caucasus region in 1942. - Failed due to the
sixth army was effectively destroyed at the
BATTLE OF STALINGRAD.
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Operation Blue (continued)
Name Jason 9B
Points /5

• The operation was divided into 2 groups.
• Group A were to attack south towards Rostov, and
  wipe out through the Transcaucasus heading for
  the Caspian Sea while taking oil-fields at
  Maikop.
• Group Bs primary task was to provide strong
  Northern flank along the Don, while cutting the
  vital Soviet freight traffic on the Volga.

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Key Fact 3 Operation Saturn
Name Winda 9A
Points /5
-December 1942 until February 1943 -Red Army
Operation on Eastern front of WWII -The first
stage was to cut off the Germanys Army Group
A. -24th Dec tanks raided Tatsinskaya(The closest
air base to Stalingrad) -29th Dec Germany had no
choice but to retreat.
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Key Fact 3 Operation Saturn (Continued)
Name Winda 9A
Points /5
90,000-prisoners, 5000-returned to Germany By
January the Hungarian Army was destroyed (Second
Stage) Germany had to retreat. Krusk, Karkov,
and Rostov were captured on Feb 1943. Stalingrad
was 400 miles off West, they had to delay the
offensive until 25h February.
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Operation Uranus
Name Michael 9A
Points /5
- A german force was encircled during Operation
Uranus. - Zhukov and Vasilevsky were the two
leaders. - Zhukovs Plan was to collect enough
resources to keep Paulus German 6Th Amry busy
while Soviet troops build 5five new tank
armies. - The Germans is surrounded in
Stalingrad, The Soviet now attacks the weak
fronts held by poorly equipped Romanian armies.
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Operation Uranus (Continued)
Name Michael 9A
Points /5
- Germans Sixth Army had lost more troop because
of the Soviet ground attacks (January 31,
1943). - The Luftwaffe promised to help resupply
the Germans but never did because of the lose of
transportation vehicles and weather conditions. -
By February 2nd 250,000 German Sixth Army troops
has surrendered to the Soviet.
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How Did This Affect the War?

• It was a turning point in the war
• German troops were stopped during their
  progression across Russia
• Unexpected German defeat gave Soviet Union hope
• Germany lost their old reputation as being
  invincible

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Conclusion

• Re-state event
• The Battle of Stalingrad was a war fought between
  Germany and the Soviet Union for Stalingrad.
• What was the result of the event?
• More than 1 million casualties
• It was the bloodiest war in human history
• How did it affect the war?
• It was a turning point in the war, where it went
  from Germany winning, to Germany losing

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3 Discussion Questions for Class

1. If Germany hadnt been stopped in this battle,
   how do you think it would affect the war?
2. If Stalingrad wasnt named after Stalin, do you
   think Hitler would still want to attack it?
3. If one of the operations didnt happen, do you
   think that Germany wouldve been stopped during
   their progression across Russia?