Operation Barbarossa in 1941 was code for the
A) German invasion of France.
B) German invasion of north Africa.
C) German invasion of the Soviet Union.
D) Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
E) Allied invasion of Normandy.
Answer: C) German invasion of the Soviet Union.
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