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The Great Patriotic War, Part II

The Great Patriotic War, Part II. July 1942 : Massive German offensive in southern Russia The city of Stalingrad is besieged The focal point of the entire war August 23: Massive German bombing destroys 80% of the city’s residential buildings

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The Great Patriotic War, Part II

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  1. The Great Patriotic War, Part II

  2. July 1942: Massive German offensive in southern Russia • The city of Stalingrad is besieged • The focal point of the entire war • August 23: Massive German bombing destroys 80% of the city’s residential buildings • Fighting in the city: average life expectancy of the Soviet soldier – 24 hours

  3. Stalingrad: the battle that decided the outcome of World War II: • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BikV_37Lv0U

  4. Stalingrad before the war

  5. Stalingrad, September 1942

  6. Women volunteers signing Oath of Allegiance

  7. Red Army infantry counterattack at Stalingrad

  8. Stalingrad worker militia

  9. “The Pavlov House”: 24 Soviet soldiers defended this block of flats in downtown Stalingrad for 2 months, surrounded by the Germans

  10. Sergeant Yakov Pavlov

  11. Soviet “Katyusha” rocket attack

  12. Stalingrad: street fighting

  13. The architects of victory at Stalingrad

  14. General Georgiy Zhukov

  15. General Aleksandr Vasilevsky

  16. General Konstantin Rokossovsky

  17. General Ivan Konev

  18. 1943: German troops surrender at Stalingrad

  19. Stalingrad: surrender of German Field Marshal von Paulus

  20. The Battle of Stalingrad claimed over two million casualties, more than any other battle in human history, and was also one of the longest: it raged for 199 days. • Killed, wounded or captured at Stalingrad: • Soviets: 1,290,000 • Germans and allies: 850,000

  21. July 1943: The Battle of Kursk: • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awRhSozctvs

  22. German POWs in Russia

  23. German POWs outside Moscow

  24. The Big Three: Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta, Feb.1945

  25. The Big Three: Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta, Feb.1945

  26. Major decisions of the Yalta Conference • 1. Unconditional surrender of Germany • 2. Division of Germany into 4 occupied zones • 3. Demilitarization and denazification of Germany • 4. Germany’s reparations, including by forced labour of its soldiers • 5. A new government in Poland, including non-Communists • 6. Changes of Poland’s borders • 7. Return of citizens to USSR and Yugoslavia • 8. Soviet Union will participate in the creation of the UNO • 9. Stalin agreed to attack Japan within 90 days of Germany’s surrender. • 10. Nazi war criminals were to be hunted down and brought to justice. • 11. A "Committee on Dismemberment of Germany" was to be set up.

  27. US and British aid to the Soviet ally, 1941-45: • Food - $1.5 bln. in contemporary prices • Automobiles – 427,000 • Warplanes – 22,000 • Tanks – 13,000 • Warships – over 500 • Explosives – 350,000 tons • Other supplies • Total estimated cost of Allied aid to USSR in contemporary prices – • $100 bln.

  28. The Battle of Berlin: April-May 1945 • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IwmYAdgU18&feature=related

  29. Red flag over Berlin, May 1945

  30. Berlin, 1945: after the capture of Hitler’s headquarters

  31. Checking out Hitler’s headquarters, May 1945

  32. Berlin, 1945: surrender of German High Command

  33. Ovens in Buchenwald concentration camp

  34. Survivors of a Nazi concentration camp

  35. Berlin in ruins • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLMAEhVq2ok&feature=related

  36. June 24, 1945: Marshal Zhukov leads Victory Parade in Red Square

  37. Victory Parade in Moscow’s Red Square, June 24, 1945: • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDQ2gQttPBs&NR=1

  38. July 1945: Stalin, Truman and Churchill at Potsdam, Germany

  39. Marshal Zhukov and General Eisenhower

  40. August 1945: Defeat of Japanese forces in Manchuria

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