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"Unruly actors: Latvian women of the Red Army in post-war historical memory." Nationalities Papers (2013) 41#6 pp: 987–1007. Engel, B. Alpern. "'The Womanly Face of War': Soviet Women Remember World War II" in N. N. Dombrowski, ed.) Women and War in the Twentieth Century: Enlisted with or without Consent, (Garland Publishing Inc., 1998)
The Allies, formally referred to as the United Nations from 1942, were an international military coalition formed during World War II (1939–1945) to oppose the Axis powers. Its principal members by the end of 1941 were the " Big Four " – the United Kingdom , United States , Soviet Union , and China .
Several hundred thousand women served in combat roles, especially in anti-aircraft units. The Soviet Union integrated women directly into their army units; approximately one million served in the Red Army, including about at least 50,000 on the frontlines; Bob Moore noted that "the Soviet Union was the only major power to use women in front-line roles," [2]: 358, 485 The United States, by ...
Territories liberated or under partisan authority were important during the war. There were major partisan areas and zones in Leningrad, Kalinin, Smolensk, and Orel oblasts. In Kalinin Oblast, for example, the partisans held 7,000 km 2 (2,700 sq mi). Partisan zones and areas made it difficult for the German-led occupation forces to carry out re ...
Women in World War II took on various roles from country to country. World War II involved global conflict on an unprecedented scale; the absolute urgency of mobilizing the entire population made the expansion of the role of women inevitable. Rosie the Riveter became an emblem of women's dedication to traditional male labor. [4]
Operation Barbarossa [g] was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and several of its European Axis allies starting on 22 June 1941, during World War II. More than 3.8 million Axis troops invaded the western Soviet Union along a 2,900-kilometer (1,800 mi) front, with the main goal of capturing territory up to a line between ...
Stalin had agreed with the Western Allies to enter the war against Japan at the Tehran Conference in 1943 and at the Yalta Conference in February 1945 once Germany was defeated. The entry of the Soviet Union in the war against Japan along with the atomic bombings by the United States led to Japan's surrender, marking the end of World War II.
Many Soviet wireless and telephone operators were women who often suffered heavy casualties when their command posts came under fire. [245] Though women were not usually trained as infantry, many Soviet women fought as machine gunners, mortar operators, scouts, [246] and as snipers. [247] Three air regiments at Stalingrad were entirely female ...