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  2. Eastern Front (World War II) - Wikipedia

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    Eastern Front; Part of the European theatre of World War II: Clockwise from top left: Soviet T-34 tanks storming PoznaƄ, 1945; German Tiger I tanks during the Battle of Kursk, 1943; German Stuka dive bombers on the Eastern Front, 1943; German Einsatzgruppen death squad murdering Jews in Ukraine, 1942; Wilhelm Keitel signing the German Instrument of Surrender, 1945; Soviet troops at the Battle ...

  3. Timeline of the Eastern Front of World War II - Wikipedia

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    The Eastern Front was a theatre of World War II which primarily involved combat between the nations and allies of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.Combat in the Eastern Front began with the two powers remaining peaceful towards each other, with the annexation of countries such as Albania and portions of Poland by Germany and its allies, and the annexation of Finland and the rest of Poland by ...

  4. European theatre of World War II - Wikipedia

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    The European theatre of World War II was one of the two main theatres of combat [nb 23] during World War II, taking place from September 1939 to May 1945.The Allied powers (including the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union) fought the Axis powers (including Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy) on both sides of the continent in the Western and Eastern fronts.

  5. Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II

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    The British referred to this theatre as the Mediterranean and Middle East Theatre (so called due to the location of the fighting and the name of Middle East Command), the Americans called it the Mediterranean Theater of War and the German informal official history of the fighting is the Mediterranean, South-East Europe, and North Africa 1939 ...

  6. List of World War II battles - Wikipedia

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    Middle Eastern Front: 1941-06-15 1941-06-17 United Kingdom Free France Vichy France: Allies Damascus: Syria–Lebanon campaign: Middle Eastern Front: 1941-06-18 1941-06-21 United Kingdom Australia Free France Vichy France: Allies Merdjayoun: Syria–Lebanon campaign: Middle Eastern Front: 1941-06-19 1941-06-24 United Kingdom Australia Vichy France

  7. List of theaters and campaigns of World War II - Wikipedia

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    Eastern Front (initially Operation Barbarossa) (June 1941 to May 1945) Continuation War (Finland) (June 1941-September 1944) Mediterranean and Middle East Theatre

  8. Army Group Centre - Wikipedia

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    Army Group Centre (German: Heeresgruppe Mitte) was the name of two distinct strategic German Army Groups that fought on the Eastern Front in World War II.The first Army Group Centre was created during the planning of Operation Barbarossa, Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union, as one of the three German Army formations assigned to the invasion.

  9. Battle of Moscow - Wikipedia

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    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.