Barbarossa
Across
- 5. German general who was fired for wanted to fall back at Moscow
- 6. Responsible for the Great Purge
- 7. 1939-Secret agreement between German leader Hitler and Soviet Leader Stalin not to attack one another and to divide Poland
- 11. Famous Soviet sniper at Stalingrad
- 12. Middle section of Operation Barbarossa that failed to capture Moscow
- 15. German general who confirm order to withdraw from Moscow, suffered heart attack
- 18. Vital transportation route by Stalingrad.
- 19. target of Army Group Center
- 20. Took control of German military during the offensive
Down
- 1. Northern wing of Operation Barbarossa that besieged Leningrad
- 2. site of massive oil fields
- 3. Most sophisticated tank of the German Army. (Expensive and hard to produce)
- 4. Site of a 872 day siege which resulted in over a million deaths
- 6. Turning point of WW2. Over a million people were killed and 90,000 German soldiers taken prisoner. Only 6,000 survived captivity.
- 8. German Field Marshal who surrendered the 6th Army at Stalingrad
- 9. Primary German tank
- 10. the practice of burning crops and killing livestock during wartime so that the enemy cannot live off the land
- 13. Superior fighting tank of the Soviet Union
- 14. oil fields in Ukraine→ led to Battle of Stalingrad
- 16. The widespread arrests and executions of over a million people between 1936 and 1938.
- 17. Soviet general who during World War II directed the counteroffensive at Stalingrad and relieved Leningrad and captured Berlin (1896-1974)