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The Great Patriotic War: Soviet Home Front and Eastern Front (1941–1945)

The Great Patriotic War: Soviet Home Front and Eastern Front (1941–1945)

  1. Germany launches Operation Barbarossa invasion

    Labels: Operation Barbarossa, Nazi Germany

  2. State Defense Committee created for wartime rule

    Labels: State Defense, USSR government

  4. Battle of Moscow begins with Operation Typhoon

    Labels: Operation Typhoon, Battle of

  5. Siege of Sevastopol begins in Crimea

    Labels: Siege of, Crimea

  6. Soviet counteroffensive launches before Moscow

    Labels: Soviet counteroffensive, Red Army

  7. Stalin issues Order No. 227 "Not one step back"

    Labels: Order No, Joseph Stalin

  8. Soviet encirclement closes at Stalingrad

    Labels: Stalingrad encirclement, Red Army

  9. Axis forces surrender at Stalingrad

    Labels: Surrender at, German Sixth

  10. Battle of Kursk begins in the Soviet salient

    Labels: Battle of, Kursk salient

  11. Tehran Conference coordinates Allied strategy

    Labels: Tehran Conference, Allied leaders

  12. Leningrad blockade is fully lifted

    Labels: Lifting of, Siege of

  13. Operation Bagration opens massive Soviet offensive

    Labels: Operation Bagration, Red Army

  14. Yalta Conference plans postwar settlement

    Labels: Yalta Conference, Allied leaders

  15. Battle of Berlin begins with Soviet assault

    Labels: Battle of, Soviet assault

  16. Berlin falls to Soviet forces

    Labels: Fall of, Soviet victory

  17. Victory Day marked as war ends in Europe

    Labels: Victory Day, Soviet commemoration