Timeline of the Eastern Front of World War II
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Below is the timeline of the events of the Eastern Front of World War II, the conflict between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1945.
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[edit] 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
- 1941-08-08 – 1944-01-18 Siege of Leningrad – the city of Leningrad and armies of the Leningrad Front encircled
- Operation Silver Fox German and Finnish forces advance north of Leningrad on Murmansk.
- Battle of Roslavl
- 1941-10-24 – 1942-01-07 Operation Typhoon – German advance on Moscow
- 1941-10-21 – 1941-10-27 Battle of Rostov – Germans initially occupied Rostov but were over-extended and driven back along shore of Sea of Azov by the Red Army.
- Battle of Vyazma-Bryansk— see Battle of Moscow
- 1941-10-10 – Battle of Vyazma – occupied by Germans
- 1941-10-06 – Battle of Bryansk – occupied by Germans
- 1941-10-02 – 1942-01-07 Battle of Moscow – Operation Typhoon stalls. Soviet Winter counter-offensive.
- Battle of the Crimea
- First Battle of Kharkov— Germans occupy Kharkov
- 1941-11-16 – 1942-07-04 Siege of Sevastopol – Crimea is occupied by the Germans
- Demyansk Pocket – trapped German troops supplied by air drop
[edit] 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 – Red Army 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
[edit] 1943
- March Rzhev-Vyazma Offensive (1943)
- 1943-02-16 – 1943-03-15 Third Battle of Kharkov – Erich von Manstein traps over-extended Red Army
- 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
[edit] 1944
- January – Korsun Pocket
- 1944-01-18 – Siege of Leningrad raised
- February–July – Battle of Narva – Soviet Leningrad-Novgorod Strategic Offensive brought to a halt by German forces including Estonian conscript formations
- June–August – Operation Bagration – destruction of German Army Group Centre
- July–August – Lvov-Sandomir Offensive – destruction of German Army Group South
- July – Soviet Narva Operation – Soviet capture of Narva town
- 1944-07-26 – 1944-08-12 – Battle of Tannenberg Line – Soviet advance to Tallinn harbour brought to a halt by German forces
- 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 Slovak-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
[edit] 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
[edit] See also
- List of Military operations on the Eastern Front European Theater during WW2
- Strategic operations of the Red Army in World War II
- Timeline of the Second World War
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