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On 23 August 1939 the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact with Germany. Germany invaded Poland on 1 September 1939, starting World War II. The Soviets invaded eastern Poland on 17 September. [2] Following the Winter War with Finland, the Soviets were ceded territories by Finland. This was followed by annexations of the Baltic states and ...
Soviet-Japanese War. Part of the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Pacific Theater of World War II. Sailors from the Pacific Fleet Marines raise the flag over Port Arthur. Date. 8 August – 2 September 1945. (3 weeks and 4 days) Location. Northeast China, Inner Mongolia, Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, and northern Korea. Result.
The Battle of Stalingrad[Note 8] (17 July 1942 – 2 February 1943) [27][28][29][30] was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II, beginning when Nazi Germany and its Axis allies attacked and became locked in a protracted struggle with the Soviet Union for control over the Soviet city of Stalingrad in southern Russia.
The Eastern Front, also known as the Great Patriotic War [j] in the Soviet Union and its successor states, and the German–Soviet War[k] in modern Germany and Ukraine, was a theatre of World War II fought between the European Axis powers and Allies, including the Soviet Union (USSR) and Poland. It encompassed Central Europe, Eastern Europe ...
World War II [b] or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all the world's countries—including all the great powers—participated, with many investing all available economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities in pursuit of total war, blurring the distinction between military and ...
The Battle of Moscow was a military campaign that consisted of two periods of strategically significant fighting on a 600 km (370 mi) sector of the Eastern Front during World War II, between October 1941 and January 1942. The Soviet defensive effort frustrated Hitler 's attack on Moscow, the capital and largest city of the Soviet Union.
The East Prussian offensive[5] was a strategic offensive by the Soviet Red Army against the German Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front (World War II). It lasted from 13 January to 25 April 1945, though some German units did not surrender until 9 May. The Battle of Königsberg was a major part of the offensive, which ended in victory for the Red Army.
21,200 aircraft, of which 10,600 were lost to combat [17] 20,500 tanks destroyed [25] Operation Barbarossa (German: Unternehmen Barbarossa; Russian: Операция Барбаросса, romanized: Operatsiya Barbarossa) was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during ...