PPT-` What do we know about Leningrad?

Title Aims Dates Keywords The Siege How do we put a novel in context What happened in Leningrad context Leningrad Survival The Siege of Leningrad Leningrad is one of the names given to Russias second largest city after Moscow Until the Russian Revolution of 1917 the city was called St Petersburg after Czar Peter the Great who founded it in 1703 and it was Russias capital and seat of government In August 1917 following the first wave of the Russian Revolution the city was renamed Petrograd Six months later Russias capital and seat of government was transferred to Moscow because the civil war raging nearby made the city unsafe Then in 1924 after the death of Vladimir Lenin one of the main leaders of the Russian Revolution the city was renamed Leningrad The city continued to be called Leningrad until the fall of Communism in the 1990s when it was given its original name of St Petersburg again. -humanized Operation Barbarossa. Why? . Living Space, Oil, Wheat. When? . June 22, 1941. Who? . 3 Million German troops attack along an 1800 mile front. What? . 3 Pronged attack. 1. Moscow 2. Kiev . 3. Leningrad. -The turning point of WW2. By: Keara Haack, Avery Escobar, Reilly Amrine, Megan Sakamoto and Abby Dean. Thesis . Operation Barbarossa was the Nazis start to a massive invasion on the Soviet Union but Hitler had underestimated the capability of the Russian people. In the battle of Leningrad, Russia had the upper hand as the Nazis were fighting a two front war and lacked many resources. The battle of Stalingrad was the first major defeat against the axis and this lead to gained confidence in the allies ability to win and the beginning of the turning point in the war.. THE PRESENTATION WAS PREPARED BY THE . STUDENT. . OF 8 . «. B. » . GRADE. TIKHONOVA ANASTASIA. The Great Patriotic War . . 1941-1945 was one of the cruelest wars of the world’s history. There is no one . Chapter 16, Section 1. Would You Bomb This City?. Tough decisions are made in WWII. Intelligence gathering tells you there is a weapons plant in the middle of the city.. Bomb or not to bomb. Talk about the pros’ and cons’ of bombing the plant. – June 22, 1941 . Haotian, Callie, Jordan, Asna, Eric. Recap: . Hitler motivated by Lebensraum. Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact 1939. Invasion of Poland 1939. France surrenders . 1940. Battle of Britain stalemate 1940. Smuggled photos from Iran border, received 1130 GMT 24 APR. CIA estimates size of Soviet invasion force to be 30,000, but unclear as to forces in reserve in AFG . CIA IS NOT CERTAIN that USSR goal is oil fields. The ideology of universal enmity is conservative and static; it depicts the world in an unsurmounted condition of "eternal return," eternal repetition of one and the same drama, since world-wide abso -The turning point of WW2. By: Keara Haack, Avery Escobar, Reilly Amrine, Megan Sakamoto and Abby Dean. Thesis . Operation Barbarossa was the Nazis start to a massive invasion on the Soviet Union but Hitler had underestimated the capability of the Russian people. In the battle of Leningrad, Russia had the upper hand as the Nazis were fighting a two front war and lacked many resources. The battle of Stalingrad was the first major defeat against the axis and this lead to gained confidence in the allies ability to win and the beginning of the turning point in the war.. Batt. I. e. of . Sta. I. ingrad. BEN YU, KOBE, . SHIDE. ZHANG, ROBE. R. T . “SL” . YAN . CURD/MYERS ¾. BATTLES PROJECT. 4/26. Overa. II. . Impact . of. Operation Barbarossa. Thesis: The failure of Operation Barbarossa opened the Eastern Front of World War Two, overtaxing Nazi military resources, allowing the Allies to capitalize on Germany’s vulnerable position from two fronts.. CIA estimates size of Soviet invasion force to be 30,000, but unclear as to forces in reserve in AFG . CIA IS NOT CERTAIN that USSR goal is oil fields. WE DISSENT from . DoD. view that oil seizure is .