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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Soviet Union in WW2. USSR aims of war:. To defeat Germany and contain them until the United States could transport and build war materials. To defend the land of Russia against Germany. Had no intention of entering war until Germany invaded Russia.

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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

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  1. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Soviet Union in WW2

  2. USSR aims of war: • To defeat Germany and contain them until the United States could transport and build war materials. • To defend the land of Russia against Germany. • Had no intention of entering war until Germany invaded Russia.

  3. Key Battle of Soviet Union • Battle of Stalingrad. Stalingrad had the Volga river a key route of Soviet transport. If Hitler took Stalingrad the Soviets would be in a bad position. • Stalin sent everyone able to hold a rifle to fight in this battle to ensure Hitler did not take the city. • Stalingrad was subject to intense bombings from the Germans which virtually converted the city to rubble. • The battle of Stalingrad was the biggest battle in human history. • Soviets defeated Germany in this battle and pushed the Germany army back. Essentially it was the turning point for WW2.

  4. Outcomes of War • The Soviets played a critical role in defeating Germany • After the battle of Stalingrad, Russian forces continued to push back German forces and the race to Berlin was on. • The Soviets won the race to Berlin and played a key role in the war. • Soviets faced 23,100,000 deaths with 13.71% of population dying.

  5. Role of Women in WW2 • Russia unlike many countries used women in direct combat in WW2. • Women used extensively as snipers, pilots, machine gunners. • 800,000 women defeated Russia in the war. Many fought in the frontline. • Women were not promoted to officers. • Women and children were also used to dig trenches if necessary as happened in the Battle of Stalingrad.

  6. Uprooting/dislocation of Civilian populations • 11,400,000 civilian deaths.

  7. Uprooting/dislocation of Civilian populations • Cities destroyed such as Stalingrad and Leningrad. • Hundreds of thousands of people displaced. • Buildings destroyed in German attacks and aerial bombing. • When Germany was retreating they destroyed infrastructure on their war out.

  8. Collaboration • The Soviet Union fought alongside Allied powers to defeat the Axis powers. • Soviets fought with the United States, Britain, France, Australia and many other countries as part of allied powers. • Soviet Union part of the ‘big three’ in the alliance consisting of Britain, United States and the Soviet Union.

  9. Theatres of War • The Eastern Front was Russia’s only true theatre of war • On June 22, 1941, Germany launched an invasion against the Soviet Union, code-named Operation Barbarossa. • This invasion, the biggest in recorded history, started the most bloody conflict the world has ever seen; the Axis-Soviet War. The Eastern Front was by far the largest and bloodiest theatre of World War II. • Battle of Berlin was one of the final battles of the European Theatre of World War II

  10. Land, Sea and Air War Tactics • Operation Barbarossa • over 30 million dead as a result • It involved more land combat than all other World War II theatres combined. • Antitank weapons • Placed in considerable depth and supported them with heavy artillery, infantry, and frequently with aircraft. • designed to break up the massed attacks made at relatively weak points by German tanks. • Little use of Air war tactics

  11. Technology • In making military equipment, the primary goals were simplicity and reliability • parts were standardized and kept to a minimum • New designs used as many existing parts as possible to maximize performance predictability • the least experienced Soviet troops and troops of countries to which the equipment was sold could operate it.

  12. Expansion of War • Race to Berlin • Georgy Zhukov and Ivan Konev were sent by Stalin to get to Berlin first • Gained control of East Germany

  13. Soviet Armament • Pistols: Nagant Model 1895 revolver Tokarev TT-33 • Bolt Action Rifles: Mosin-Nagant Model 1891/30G Mosin-Nagant Model 1944G Carbine • Semi-Automatic Rifles: Tokarev SVT 38/40 • Automatic Rifles: AVT 40 (SVT 40 with full automatic capability) • Submachine Guns: Pistolet Pulyemet Degtyarev 1940G (PPD 40) Pistolet Pulyemet Shpagin 1941G (famed PPSh 41) Pistolet Pulyemet Sudarev 1943 (PPS 43) • Machine Guns: Degtyarev DP-1928 Maxim Model 1910 (WWI leftover) Degtyarev Shpagin DShK 1938 Goryunov SG 43 • Anti-Tank Rifles: Protivo Tankovoe Ruzh'Yo Destyarev 1941 (PTRD 41) Protivo Tankovoe Ruzh'Yo Simonova 1941 (PTRS 41) • Flamethrowers: ROKS-2 • Grenades: RGD-33 RPG-40/43

  14. Soviet Home Front • After rapid German advances in the early months of the war reaching the city of Moscow, the bulk of Soviet industry and agriculture was either destroyed or in German hands. • One of the greatest logistics feats of the war • thousands of factories were moved beyond the Ural Mountains along with well over a million workers. • The whole of the Soviet Union become dedicated to the war effort. • Conditions were severe. • In Leningrad, under German siege, over a million died of starvation and disease. • Many factory workers were teenagers, women and old people. • Despite harsh conditions, the war led to a spike in Soviet nationalism and unity. • Soviet propaganda toned down socialist rhetoric of the past as the people now rallied by a belief of protecting their motherland against "evil" German invaders.

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