Barbarossa

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