HIS250Y1 Lecture Notes - Ice Road, Operation Sea Lion, Guerrilla Warfare
Document Summary
Vast numbers of civilians, jews and military personnel die. A lot of nazi soldiers met their fate as well. Eastern front is the front of mass death. A few weeks after that pact is signed, hitler invades. A few weeks later- soviets invade to ensure the border set in the pact is respected. Soviets moved into the baltic states (estonia, lithuania, latvia). Late summer and fall of 1940 is the battle of britain (operation sea lion)- failed. Soviet union attempts to move into finland but that doesn"t go so well. Soviets move to increase industrial productivity and expect a massive war. There is a massive invasion of the soviet union on june 22nd 1941. Nazi troops were already massed along the border. 3400 tanks, 5k aircraft, 5. 5 million troops, and a shitload of artillery. Stalin apparently trusted hitler not to go back on their pact. He was warned by several western allies that attack was likely- he didn"t prepare.
