Below is the timeline of the events of the Eastern Front of World War II, the conflict between the Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1945. The Eastern Front was the theatre of combat between Nazi Germany and its allies against the Soviet Union during World War II. It was somewhat separate from the other theatres of the war, not only geographically, but also for its scale and ferocity. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ...

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1941

• 1941-06-22 Operation Barbarossa launched — Axis invasion of the Soviet Union
• 1941-06-22–? Battle of the Baltic (1941)
• 1941-06-22–1941-07-09 Battle of Western Ukraine — destruction of Soviet tank armies
• 1941-06-22–1941-07-09 Battle of Bialystok-Minsk — Soviet 3rd and 10th armies encircled
• 1941-07-10–1941-09-10 Battle of Smolensk — Soviet 16th and 20th armies encircled
• 1941-07-10–1941-08-08 Battle of Uman — Soviet 6th and 12th armies encircled
• 1941-08-08–1941-09-19 Battle of Kiev — Soviet Southern Front encircled
• Operation Silver Fox German and Finnish forces advance on Murmansk.
• Battle of Roslavl
• Operation Typhoon — German advance on Moscow
• Battle of Rostov (1941) — Germans over-extended and driven back along shore of Sea of Azov
• Battle of Vyazma-Bryansk
• 1941-08-08–1944-01-18 Siege of Leningrad
• 1941-10-02–1942-01-07 Battle of Moscow — Soviet Winter counter-offensive with Siberian troops
• Battle of the Crimea
• First Battle of Kharkov
• 1941-11-16–1942-07-04 Siege of Sevastopol — Germans are claimed by some to have used poison gas to flush Soviet defenders from bunkers and caves
• Demyansk Pocket — trapped German troops supplied by air drop

For other uses, see 1941 (disambiguation). ... is the 173rd day of the year (174th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Combatants Germany Romania Finland Italy Hungary Slovakia  Soviet Union Commanders Adolf Hitler Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb Fedor von Bock Gerd von Rundstedt Heinz Guderian Günther von Kluge Franz Halder Maresal Ion Antonescu C.G.E. Mannerheim Giovanni Messe, CSIR Italo Garibaldi, ARMIR Joseph Stalin Kliment Voroshilov Semyon Timoshenko Fyodor... For other uses, see 1941 (disambiguation). ... is the 173rd day of the year (174th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... a battle between german and russian forces for the control of the baltic sea. ... For other uses, see 1941 (disambiguation). ... is the 173rd day of the year (174th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see 1941 (disambiguation). ... is the 190th day of the year (191st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see 1941 (disambiguation). ... is the 173rd day of the year (174th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see 1941 (disambiguation). ... is the 190th day of the year (191st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Combatants Wehrmacht Red Army Commanders Field Marshal Fedor von Bock Army General D. Pavlov Strength Unknown Unknown Casualties Unknown 425,000 The Battle of Bialystok-Minsk was one of the Border Battles during the opening stage of Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. ... For other uses, see 1941 (disambiguation). ... is the 191st day of the year (192nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see 1941 (disambiguation). ... is the 253rd day of the year (254th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... The eastern front at the time of the Battle of Smolensk. ... For other uses, see 1941 (disambiguation). ... is the 191st day of the year (192nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see 1941 (disambiguation). ... is the 220th day of the year (221st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... The eastern front at the time of the Battle of Uman. ... For other uses, see 1941 (disambiguation). ... is the 220th day of the year (221st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see 1941 (disambiguation). ... is the 262nd day of the year (263rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Combatants Germany Soviet Union Commanders Gerd von Rundstedt Semyon Budyonny (Removed from duty on Sept. ... Combatants Germany, Finland Soviet Union Commanders Nikolaus von Falkenhorst (Armee Norwegen) Roman Panin (Northern Front) The original plan for operation Silver Fox. Operation Silver Fox (Unternehmen Silberfuchs) was a German operation during World War II. Its main goal was the capture of the Soviet port at Murmansk through attacks from... Murmansk coin Murmansk (Russian: ; Finnish: (archaic); Northern Sami: ; Skolt Sami: ) is a city in the extreme northwest part of Russia with a seaport on the Kola Bay, 12 km from the Barents Sea on the northern shore of the Kola Peninsula, not far from Russias borders with Norway and... The eastern front at the time of Operation Typhoon. ... The eastern front at the time of the Battle of Rostov. ... The shallow Sea of Azov is clearly distinguished from the deeper Black Sea. ... For other uses, see 1941 (disambiguation). ... is the 220th day of the year (221st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... is the 18th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Combatants Germany Spanish Blue Division Soviet Union Commanders Wilhelm von Leeb Georg von Küchler Agustín Muñoz Grandes Kliment Voroshilov Georgiy Zhukov Strength 725,000 930,000 Casualties Unknown Red Army: 332,059 KIA 24,324 non-combat dead 111,142 missing 16,470 civilians 1 million civilians... For other uses, see 1941 (disambiguation). ... is the 275th day of the year (276th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 7th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Combatants Nazi Germany Soviet Union Commanders Fedor von Bock, Heinz Guderian Georgy Zhukov, Aleksandr Vasilevsky Strength As of October 1: 1,000,000 men, 1,700 tanks, 14,000 guns, 950 planes[1] As of October 1: 1,250,000 men, 1,000 tanks, 7,600 guns, 677 planes[2... ddsss ... For other uses, see 1941 (disambiguation). ... is the 320th day of the year (321st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 185th day of the year (186th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article or section should be merged with Battle of Sevastopol The Siege of Sevastopol, which began on 5 June 1942, was a massive German incirclement of Soviet forces on the Crimean peninsula. ... Early detection of chemical agents Sociopolitical climate of chemical warfare While the study of chemicals and their military uses was widespread in China, the use of toxic materials has historically been viewed with mixed emotions and some disdain in the West (especially when the enemy were doing it). ... Demyansk Pocket (German: die Demjansker Operation, Russian: ) is a name of encirclement of German troops by Red Army near Demyansk (Demjansk), south of Leningrad, during the Second World War, which lasted mainly from February 8 until April 21, 1942. ...

1942

• January–April Rzhev-Vyazma Offensive (1942) — disastrous Soviet attempt to cut off the Rzhev salient
• 1942-05-12–1942-05-30 Second Battle of Kharkov — Soviets take city but are cut off by 1st Panzer Army
• July Battle of Voronezh (1942)
• 1942-06-28 Operation Blue launched — from the Don to the Volga
• July First Rzhev-Sychevka Offensive
• 1942-07-23–1943-02-01 Battle of the Caucasus — Austrian troops climb Mount Elbrus but Axis cannot fight their way through to the Caspian Sea oilfields
• 1942-09-01–1943-02-02 Battle of Stalingrad — Bloodiest battle in history
• 1942-11-19 Operation Uranus launched — Romanian and Hungarian armies destroyed; 300,000 Axis troops trapped at Stalingrad
• November–December Second Rzhev-Sychevka Offensive — another disastrous Soviet attempt to cut off Rzhev salient; Georgy Zhukov's worst defeat
• 1942-12-12–1942-12-29 Operation Winter Storm — fails to relieve Stalingrad
• 1942-12-16–1943-02-25 Operation Saturn — soviet offensive destroys the Axis position in the Caucasus and Donbass

The formation of the Rzhev salient during the winter of 1941-1942. ... Year 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 132nd day of the year (133rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 150th day of the year (151st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Combatants Germany Soviet Union Commanders Fedor von Bock, Friedrich Paulus Semyon Timoshenko Strength 300,000 men, 1000 tanks, 1500 aircraft 640,000 men, 1200 tanks, 1000 aircraft Casualties 20,000 killed, wounded or captured 207,057 killed, wounded or captured, 652 tanks, 1,646 guns, 3,278 mortars, 57,626... Combatants Germany, Hungary Soviet Union Commanders Hermann Hoth Gusztav Jany Yevgeny Golikov Strength Casualties The Battle of Voronezh was a battle of the Eastern Front of World War II, fought in and around the city of Voronezh on the Don river in June and July 1942. ... Year 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 179th day of the year (180th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Operation Blue(German: Fall Blau) was the German Wehrmachts codename for the 1942 summer offensive. ... The Don (Дон) is one of the major rivers of Russia. ... For other meanings of the word Volga see Volga (disambiguation) Волга Length 3,690 km Elevation of the source 225 m Average discharge  ? m³/s Area watershed 1. ... The formation of the Rzhev salient during the winter of 1941-1942. ... Year 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 204th day of the year (205th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 32nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... The Battle of Caucasus is a generic name for a series of operations during the Great Patriotic War. ... For the Soviet-era computer, see Elbrus (computer). ... The Caspian Sea is the largest enclosed body of water on Earth by area, variously classed as the worlds largest lake or a full-fledged sea. ... Year 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 33rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Combatants Germany Romania Italy Hungary Croatia Soviet Union Commanders Adolf Hitler Friedrich Paulus # Erich von Manstein Hermann Hoth Petre Dumitrescu Constantin Constantinescu Italo Garibaldi Gusztav Jany Vasiliy Chuikov Aleksandr Vasilyevskiy Georgiy Zhukov Semyon Timoshenko Konstantin Rokossovskiy Rodion Malinovskiy Andrei Yeremenko Strength Army Group B: German Sixth Army # German Fourth Panzer... Year 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 323rd day of the year (324th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... The eastern front at the time of Operation Uranus. ... The eastern front at the time of the Second Rzhev-Sychevka Offensive. ... Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov, GCB (Russian: ) (December 1, 1896 [O.S. November 19]–June 18, 1974), was a Soviet military commander who, in the course of World War II, led the Red Army to liberate the Soviet Union from the Nazi occupation, to overrun... Year 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 346th day of the year (347th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 363rd day of the year (364th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Operation Winter Storm (German Unternehmen Wintergewitter) was the German Fourth Panzer Armys attempt to relieve the German Sixth Army from encirclement during the Battle of Stalingrad during World War II. The operation commenced on 12 December 1942 and was able to advance just halfway to its objective before a... Year 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 350th day of the year (351st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 56th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Soviet advances during Operations Uranus, Mars and Saturn. ...

1943

• March Rzhev-Vyazma Offensive (1943)
• 1943-02-16–1943-03-15 Third Battle of Kharkov — Erich von Manstein traps over-extended Soviets
• 1943-07-05–1943-08-01 Battle of Kursk — largest tank battle in history; Germans defeated by defense in depth
• 1943-07-30 Battle of the Mius
• August Battle of Belgorod
• August Fourth Battle of Kharkov
• Battle of Smolensk (1943)
• September–November Battle of the Dniepr
• October Battle of Lenino
• November Battle of Kiev
• December–August 1944 Battle of the Ukraine

Year 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 47th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 74th day of the year (75th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Combatants Soviet Union Germany Commanders Filipp Golikov Nikolay Vatutin Erich von Manstein †Theodor Eicke Strength 300,000 men 160,000 men Casualties Voronezh Front: Army of Popov: 3,000 KIA 11,000 WIA Southwestern Front: 20,000 KIA 90,000 WIA 9,000 POWs Final battles: 25,000 KIA 80... Generalfeldmarschall Erich von Manstein The neutrality of this article is disputed. ... Year 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 186th day of the year (187th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 213th day of the year (214th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Combatants Nazi Germany Soviet Union Commanders Erich von Manstein Günther von Kluge Hermann Hoth Walther Model Georgiy Zhukov Konstantin Rokossovskiy Nikolay Vatutin Ivan Konyev Strength 2,700 tanks 800,000 infantry 2,000 aircraft 3,600 tanks 1,300,000 infantry and supporting troops 2,400 aircraft Casualties German... Year 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 211th day of the year (212th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... The Battle of Belgorod was fought early August, 1943 between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. ... The Fourth Battle of Kharkov was fought on August 23, 1943 between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. ... Combatants Axis Soviet Union Commanders Günther von Kluge Andrei Yeremenko, Vasily Sokolovsky Strength 850,000 men, 8,800 guns, 500 tanks, 700 planes[1] 1,253,000 men, 20,640 guns, 1,430 tanks, 1,100 planes[1] Casualties (Soviet est. ... Battle of Lenino took place from 12th October to 13th October 1943 near Trigubovo village (later renamed Lenino, today on Belarus) between Soviet Union 33rd Western Front Army and Nazi German forces. ... The 1943 Battle of Kiev resulted in a Soviet victory, forcing the German invaders of the Soviet Union to retreat further. ...

1944

• January — Korsun Pocket
• 1944-01-18 — Siege of Leningrad raised
• June–August — Operation Bagration — destruction of German Army Group Centre
• July–August — Lvov-Sandomir Offensive — destruction of German Army Group South
• August — Operation Iassy-Kishinev (German "Operation Jassy-Kischinew") — defeat of German forces in Romania and switching of sides of Romania
• 1944-08-23 — Romania switches sides
• August–September — Warsaw Uprising — failed due to lack of outside support
• 1944-08-29–1944-10-28 — Slovak National Uprising — Failed coup of czech-soviet irregular forces in Slovakia
• August–October — Battle of the Baltic (1944) — German Army Group North trapped in Courland
• 1944-10-06–1944-10-28 — Battle of Debrecen — German Army Group Fretter-Pico surrounded and destroyed Soviet Mobile Group Pliyev of the 2nd Ukrainian Front
• 1944-09-04 — Soviet Union agrees armistice with Finland
• October — Battle of Belgrade
• 1944-12-29–1945-02-13 — Battle of Budapest

Korsun Pocket, also known as the Cherkassy Pocket, was the name of the large pocket of German troops between the towns of Korsun and Cherkassy on the lower Dnepr River in the Southern Ukraine, during World War II. In January of 1944, the encroaching Soviet Red Army executed a pincer... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... is the 18th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Combatants Germany Spanish Blue Division Soviet Union Commanders Wilhelm von Leeb Georg von Küchler Agustín Muñoz Grandes Kliment Voroshilov Georgiy Zhukov Strength 725,000 930,000 Casualties Unknown Red Army: 332,059 KIA 24,324 non-combat dead 111,142 missing 16,470 civilians 1 million civilians... Combatants Germany Soviet Union Commanders Ernst Busch Walther Model Ferdinand Schörner Konstantin Rokossovsky Georgy Zhukov Aleksandr Vasilevsky Strength 800,000 1,700,000 Casualties : 400,000 killed, 158,000 POWs, 590,000 wounded : 260,000 killed, 250,000 wounded 116,000 POWs 60,000 KIA/MIA, 110,000 WIA... Army Group Centre (Heeresgruppe Mitte in German) was created on 22 June 1941 when Army Group B was renamed Army Group Centre. ... Combatants Germany Soviet Union Commanders Josef Harpe (Heeresgruppe Nordukraine) Ivan Koniev (1st Ukrainian Front) Strength 368,000 men 340 AFVs 4,800 guns 1,200,000 men 1,979 AFVs 11,265 guns Casualties 37,400 men 520 AFVs 198,000 men 1,285 AFVs The Lvov-Sandomierz Operation was... Army Group South (Heeresgruppe Süd in German) was a German Army Group during World War II. Germany used two army groups to invade Poland in 1939: Army Group North and Army Group South. ... Combatants Soviet Union Germany Romania Commanders Rodion Malinovsky Fyodor Tolbukhin Johannes Friessner Ion Antonescu Strength 1,341,200, 1,874 tanks and assault guns ca. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... is the 235th day of the year (236th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see Warsaw Uprising (disambiguation). ... The Warsaw Uprising, in 1944 ended in the capitulation of the city and its near total destruction. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... is the 241st day of the year (242nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... is the 301st day of the year (302nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Combatants Nazi Germany Slovakia Commanders Heinrich Himmler Ferdinand Čatloš Ján Golian† Rudolf Viest† Strength 40,000, later increased to 83,000 18,000 initially, later increased to 78,000 Casualties ≈10,000 ≈10,000 + 5,304 captured and executed Memorial of the Slovak National Uprising in Banska Bystrica The... Combatants Red Army Wehrmacht Commanders Soviet STAVKA German OKW Strength Unknown Unknown Casualties 260,000 all causes Unknown // [edit] Overview The Battle of the Baltic, called the Baltic Operation by the Red Army who undertook it, denotes combat operations between the German Wehrmacht and the Red Army in the Baltic... Army Group North (Heeresgruppe Nord in German) was a high level command grouping of military units operating for Germany during World War II. The army group coordinated the operations of attached army corps, reserve formations, and direct-reporting units. ... Coat of arms of Courland Courland (Latvian: ; German: ; Latin: Curonia / Couronia; Lithuanian: ; Estonian: ; Polish: ; Russian: ) is an historical Baltic province now part of Latvia. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... is the 279th day of the year (280th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... is the 301st day of the year (302nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Combatants Germany Hungary Soviet Union Commanders Johannes Friessner (Heeresgruppe Süd), Maximilian Fretter-Pico (6. ... The Steppe Front was a Front (military subdivision) of the Soviet Army during the Second World War. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... is the 247th day of the year (248th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... is the 363rd day of the year (364th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). ... is the 44th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

1945

• 1945-01-12–1945-02-02 — Vistula-Oder Offensive — Soviet advance from Poland to deep within the borders of Germany (seen from the location of the borders then)
• 1945-03-06–1945-03-17 — Lake Balaton Offensive — Last German offensive of the war
• 1945-04-02–1945-04-13 — Vienna Offensive
• 1945-04-16–1945-04-19 — Battle of the Seelow Heights — Zhukov's costly frontal assault on Berlin
• 1945-04-16–1945-05-02 — Battle of Berlin — One month of street-by-street fighting
• 1945-04-24–1945-05-01 — Battle of Halbe — Elements of German 9th Army escape to the west
• 1945-04-30 — Death of Adolf Hitler
• 1945-05-07 — Unconditional surrender of Germany in Rheims
• 1945-05-08 — Unconditional surrender of Germany in Berlin
• 1945-05-08 — End of World War II in Europe
• 1945-05-06–1945-05-11 — Prague Offensive

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See also

• Timeline of the Second World War
• List of Military operations on the Eastern Front European Theater during WW2