Russia in World War Two

• You have today’s lesson (period one) to prepare a presentation for delivery to the rest of the class on one of the following areas

• You should consider the event or theme, why it was important in the course of the war and any effects that it had

• Add pictures and eyewitness accounts if possible

Topics

• Scorched earth policy (why introduced, effects)• Operation Barbarossa (intended aims)• Leningrad (battles for and strategic importance)• Stalingrad• Battle of Kursk• Russian victory and liberation of Berlin• Human cost of war

Useful websites

• http://www.soviethistory.org/index.php• http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Russia

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