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The Eastern Front, also known as the Great Patriotic War [l] in the Soviet Union and its successor states, and the German–Soviet War [m] 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.
Eastern Front, (June 22, 1941–May 8, 1945), major theatre of combat during World War II that included operations in the Soviet Union, the Balkans, the Baltic States, and eastern and central Europe. The principal belligerents were the Soviet Union (Allied powers) and Germany (Axis powers).
Eastern Front, major theater of combat during World War I that included operations on the main Russian front as well as campaigns in Romania. The Eastern Front, which stretched from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south, was more than twice as long as the Western Front.
The Eastern Front or Eastern Theater of World War I [c] was a theater of operations that encompassed at its greatest extent the entire frontier between Russia and Romania on one side and Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire, and Germany on the other.
Dive into the bitterly contested, racial, furious battles of the Eastern Front, where more combatants were killed than in all other theaters combined. Primary image: map showing the advance of the Allied armies from both the east and west at the end of World War II.
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 ...
Often referred to as the “eastern front,” the German-Soviet theater of war was the largest and deadliest of World War II. Learn more about the background and key events.
World War II - Eastern Front, June-Dec 1944: The progress of the Soviet armies toward central and southeastern Europe made it all the more urgent for the western Allies to come to terms with Stalin about the fate of the “liberated” countries of eastern Europe.
Eastern Front Overview. More combatants were killed on the Eastern Front than in all other theaters of World War II combined. These bitterly contested, racial battles prevented Germany from mounting a more resolute defense against Allied armies in Normandy, and later on the Reich’s western borders. Learn More. Displaying 1 - 12 of 58 results.
When Hitler unleashed the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, he fully expected his armies to triumph in a matter of weeks. Instead, the operation cost him the war. Sir Richard J Evans considers how it all went wrong for the Germans on the eastern front.