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2001 Russian stamp for the 60th anniversary of the Battle of Moscow. The defense of Moscow became a symbol of Soviet resistance against the invading Axis forces. To commemorate the battle, Moscow was awarded the title of "Hero City" in 1965, on the 20th anniversary of Victory Day. A Museum of the Defence of Moscow was created in 1995. [104]
British and German wounded, Bernafay Wood, 19 July 1916. Photo by Ernest Brooks.. The total number of military and civilian casualties in World War I was about 40 million: estimates range from around 15 to 22 million deaths [1] and about 23 million wounded military personnel, ranking it among the deadliest conflicts in human history.
Battle Year Conflict Casualties Battle of Megiddo: 1457 BC Thutmose III's first campaign in the Levant: 16,000+ Battle of Kadesh: 1274 BC Second Syrian campaign of Ramesses II: 30,000+ Battle of Qarqar: 853 BC Assyrian conquest of Aram: 24,000+ Battle of Thymbra: 547 BC Lydian–Persian War: 100,000 [163] Battle of Marathon: 490 BC Greco ...
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Map of the Soviet 1941–1942 winter counteroffensive. The winter campaign of 1941–1942 from 5 December 1941 to 7 May 1942 was the name given by Soviet military command to the period that marked the commencement of the Moscow Strategic Offensive Operation (better known as the Battle of Moscow ).
The Russian offensive in the Battle of Stallupönen, which was the opening battle of the Eastern Front, [53] quickly turned to a disastrous defeat following the Battle of Tannenberg in August 1914; [54] even though the Russians were successfully defending at Gumbinnen a while before Tannenberg.
Battles generally refer to short periods of intense combat localized to a specific area and over a specific period of time. However, use of the terms in naming such events is not consistent. For example, the First Battle of the Atlantic was more or less an entire theatre of war, and the so-called battle lasted for the duration of the entire war ...
Before World War II, the events of 1914–1918 were generally known as the Great War or simply the World War. [1] In August 1914, the magazine The Independent wrote "This is the Great War. It names itself". [2] In October 1914, the Canadian magazine Maclean's similarly wrote, "Some wars name themselves. This is the Great War."