Operation Barbarossa

The number of casualties which Operation Barbarossa resulted in was approximately 700,000, as well as 604,000 wounded and 36,000 missing (New World Encyclopedia). Germany actually failed in the operation and did not achieve victory over the Soviet Union. From this failure, the Soviet Union was able to begin counterattacks on Germany, and was able to try and retake some of their own land, as well as advance into Germany’s properties (history.com). Operation Barbarossa was the beginning of a new…

The warfighting function that enables successful continuation of military operations is sustainment. Sustainment is defined as providing logistic support, personnel services, and health services in order to continue operations until the mission is successfully completed (ADP 4-0.) Without sustainment operations, the Army would be unable to continue to operate both large and small scale missions. ADP 4-0 provides seven separate but closely related principles that provide guidance to commanders…

My Proposal will be over the reason why Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 and how that decision ensured that Germany lost WW2 saving us from a very different Europe today. In 1941 Nazi Germany had in the past 2 years conquered much of Europe and it looked like Germany would rule Europe.They made the fatal decision then to invade Russia in a war that would lead to their downfall.In June 1941 then over 3 million German troops invaded the Soviet Union in the largest invasion in human…

weather, only wrong kind of clothing,” Russian Saying. The OKH (Oberkommando des Heeres) and Hitler were going to strike Moscow, but how. The OKH wanted to go straight through Moscow, and win this battle. Hitler wanted to take a detour to Ukraine. (Operation…

There have been several movies made about this time; they always feature three things. Communism, nuclear fallout, and high tensions are the three things that are always in movies. This is the Cold War and the place is the infamous Communist Bloc. The Communist Bloc is a collection of Eastern European countries that were either “persuaded” or simply influenced by the Communist Soviet Union. The Communist Bloc was all because of what happened in World War II. What happened in World War II was the…

point in the war in Europe, it was more of an emotional turning point for the British people than the combined Allied forces. This essay will consider the importance of other events such as Operation Barbarossa and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour (1941) which occurred at earlier stages in the war…

The Barbary pirates or corsairs, also known as the Ottoman corsairs, were pirates and privateers from North Africa who operated mainly from the ports of Algiers, Tunis, Sale and Tripoli. Of these states, Algiers was their strongest port of operation. The pirates frequented the Mediterranean sea and the Atlantic ocean. The Barbary pirates derive their name from the Berber tribe who inhabited these states, thereafter known as the Barbary states. It is also speculated that the West described these…

sculptor Its construction began in 1701. It was given as a gift to Peter the great as a gift of the countries alliance in 1716. The room was shipped to Russia and installed in the Hinter House in St.Petersburg. The room was looted as part of operation Barbarossa . People had tried to conceal the room as the amber and gold were to fragile to move but due to the rushed job and the leg and of the room is was easily found by the Germans. The rooms panel were quickly taken down and stored into…

When Hitler came to power in 1935, his ultimate ambitions was to one day conquer the world. That pipe dream came to a halt when in 1945, as the Allied powers closed in on Berlin and Hitler died by a self inflicted gunshot wound. However, to say that even though Hitler did not have an influence on the world after World War II, one is surely mistaken. The whole reason why the Cold War existed was because of Adolf Hitler. To trace this, one has to go to the moment before Hitler invaded Poland in…

seven million Soviet and German soldiers, 53 thousand artillery pieces and mortars, 6000 tanks and three thousand combat aircraft engaged in fierce and bloody fighting spanning a distance of over 600 kilometers. The Battle of Moscow, also known as Operation Typhoon was a decisive military event of the first year in the Eastern Front of the war and the battle which would eventually prolong German war effort in the East.…