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Eastern Front (WWII)

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Theatre of war of European Axis and Soviet Union blocs

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Eastern Front
Part of the European theatre of World War II
Clockwise from top left: Soviet T-34 tanks storming Berlin; German Tiger I tanks during the Battle of Kursk; German Stuka dive bombers on the Eastern Front, December 1943; Ivanhorod Einsatzgruppen photograph of German death squads murdering Jews in Ukraine; Wilhelm Keitel signing the German Instrument of Surrender; Soviet troops in the Battle of Stalingrad
Date 22 June 1941 (1941-06-22) – 8 May 1945 (1945-05-08) (3 years, 10 months, 2 weeks and 2 days) Location Europe, east of Germany: Central and Eastern Europe, in later stages: Germany and Austria Result Soviet victory[i] Fall of Nazi Germany (concurrently with the Western Front) Beginning of the Cold War and creation of the Eastern Bloc and the Iron Curtain Beginning of anti-communist insurgencies Territorial changes Soviet occupation of Central and Eastern Europe Allied occupation of Germany, Austria and Partition of Germany Polish puppet state and change of borders Soviet occupation of Romania Soviet occupation of Hungary Bulgarian communist coup and Soviet occupation Soviet re-occupation of the Baltics Czechoslovakia cedes Carpathian Ruthenia East Prussia split between the Soviet Union (Kaliningrad Oblast) and Poland (Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship)
Belligerents
Axis:  Germany  Romania (until 1944)  Hungary[a]  Finland (until 1944)  Italy (until 1943)  Slovakia[b]  Croatia[c]	Allies:  Soviet Union Poland[d]  Czechoslovakia[e] Yugoslav Partisans[1] Former Axis powers:  Romania (from 1944)  Bulgaria (from 1944)  Finland (from 1944) Support:  United States[f]  British Empire[g]  Free France[h] (from 1943)
Commanders and leaders
Axis leaders: Adolf Hitler † Wilhelm Keitel Alfred Jodl Walther von Brauchitsch Franz Halder Kurt Zeitzler Hermann Göring Hans Jeschonnek Wilhelm von Leeb Fedor von Bock Gerd von Rundstedt Günther von Kluge Georg von Küchler Wilhelm List Maximilian von Weichs Ewald von Kleist Erich von Manstein Ernst Busch Walter Model Johannes Friessner Georg Lindemann Ferdinand Schörner Lothar Rendulic Heinrich Himmler Ion Antonescu Iosif Iacobici [ro] Ilie Șteflea Petre Dumitrescu Horia Macellariu Miklós Horthy Ferenc Szálasi Ferenc Szombathelyi Károly Beregfy Risto Ryti C.G.E. Mannerheim Aksel Airo Benito Mussolini Italo Gariboldi	Allied leaders: Joseph Stalin Georgy Zhukov Boris Shaposhnikov Aleksandr Vasilevsky Aleksei Antonov Kliment Voroshilov Semyon Timoshenko Semyon Budyonny Nikolai Kuznetsov Ivan Isakov Pavel Zhigarev Alexander Novikov Sergei Khudyakov Markian Popov Fyodor Kuznetsov Dmitry Pavlov  Mikhail Kirponos † Ivan Tyulenev Andrey Yeremenko Pavel Kurochkin Ivan Konev Yakov Cherevichenko Rodion Malinovsky Kiril Meretskov Filipp Golikov Konstantin Rokossovsky Leonid Govorov Nikolai Vatutin † Maksim Purkayev Vasily Sokolovsky Fyodor Tolbukhin Ivan Petrov Ivan Bagramyan Ivan Chernyakhovsky † Bolesław Bierut Michał Rola-Żymierski Zygmunt Berling Michael I Constantin Sănătescu Nicolae Rădescu Kimon Georgiev C.G.E. Mannerheim
Strength
1941 3,767,000 troops 1942 3,720,000 troops 1943 3,933,000 troops 1944 3,370,000 troops 1945 1,960,000 troops	1941 (Front) 2,680,000 troops 1942 (Front) 5,313,000 troops 1943 (Front) 6,724,000 troops 1944 6,800,000 troops 1945 6,410,000 troops
Casualties and losses
Total: 5.1 million dead 4.5 million killed or missing in action 600,000 died in captivity 4.5 million captured See below.	Total: 8.7–10 million dead 6.5–6.7 million killed or missing in action 2.2–3.3 million died in captivity 4.1 million captured See below.
Civilian casualties: 18–24 million civilians dead See below.

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History of the Soviet Union
Background Communism Bolshevism World revolution Russian Social Democratic Labour Party Bolshevik split Bolshevik Party Russian Empire World War I February Revolution
1917–1927: Establishment October Revolution Russian Civil War Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Red Terror War communism New Economic Policy Treaty on the Creation of the USSR National delimitation Death and funeral of Lenin
1927–1953: Stalinism Socialism in one country Collectivization Soviet famine of 1932–1933 Holodomor Kazakhstan famine of 1932–1933 Industrialization Cultural Revolution Great Purge Moscow Trials World War II Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact Great Patriotic War Operation Barbarossa Occupation of the Baltic states Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina Battle of Berlin Soviet invasion of Manchuria Soviet deportations Soviet famine of 1946–1947 Cold War Berlin Blockade Korean War First Indochina War Death and funeral of Stalin
1953–1964: Khrushchev Thaw East German uprising of 1953 Virgin Lands campaign 1954 transfer of Crimea Khrushchev Thaw De-Stalinization ""On the Cult of Personality" We will bury you 1956 Georgian demonstrations Hungarian Revolution of 1956 Wage reforms Peaceful coexistence Consolidation of the Cuban Revolution Sino-Soviet split Space program Cuban Missile Crisis
1964–1982: Era of Stagnation Brezhnev Doctrine Era of Stagnation 50th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide protests Six-Day War Détente Vietnam War Laotian Civil War Operation Menu Cambodian Civil War Fall of Saigon Yom Kippur War Prague Spring Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia Wars in Africa Angolan War of Independence Angolan Civil War Mozambican War of Independence Mozambican Civil War South African Border War Rhodesian Bush War Cambodian–Vietnamese War Soviet–Afghan War 1980 Summer Olympics Olympic boycotts 1980 Olympic boycott 1984 Olympic boycott Polish strike Death and funeral of Brezhnev
1982–1991: Decline and collapse Invasion of Grenada Glasnost Perestroika Chernobyl disaster Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan Singing Revolution Estonian Sovereignty Declaration Baltic Way Lithuanian independence Economic blockade Latvian independence Revolutions of 1989 Pan-European Picnic Peaceful Revolution Fall of the Berlin Wall Velvet Revolution End of communist rule in Hungary Romanian Revolution German reunification Dissolution of the Soviet Union Jeltoqsan First Nagorno-Karabakh War April 9 tragedy Black January Osh riots War of Laws Dushanbe riots January Events The Barricades Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=Eastern_Front_(WWII) Text je dostupný za podmienok Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License 3.0 Unported; prípadne za ďalších podmienok. Podrobnejšie informácie nájdete na stránke Podmienky použitia.  Navigácia: Veda > Analytika Antropológia Aplikované vedy Bibliometria Dejiny vedy Encyklopédie Filozofia vedy Forenzné vedy Humanitné vedy Knižničná veda Kryogenika Kryptológia Kulturológia Literárna veda Medzidisciplinárne oblasti Metódy kvantitatívnej analýzy Metavedy Metodika Metodológia vedy Náboženstvo a veda Náučná literatúra Podvody vo vede Popularizácia vedy Potravinárstvo Prírodné vedy Pseudoveda Scientometria Spoločenské vedy Teórie Teatrológia Technické vedy Technika Terminológia Umenie Výskum Veda Veda a technika podľa štátu Veda a technika podľa kontinentu Veda a technika podľa roka Veda v kozme Vedci Vedecká literatúra Vedecké databázy Vedecké experimenty Vedecké konferencie Vedecké metódy Vedecké ocenenia Vedecké organizácie Vedecké parky Vedeckí spisovatelia Vzdelávanie Záhady Príbuzné výrazy: Text je dostupný za podmienok Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License 3.0 Unported; prípadne za ďalších podmienok. Podrobnejšie informácie nájdete na stránke Podmienky použitia. www.astronomia.sk | www.biologia.sk | www.botanika.sk | www.dejiny.sk | www.economy.sk | www.elektrotechnika.sk | www.estetika.sk | www.farmakologia.sk | www.filozofia.sk | Fyzika | www.futurologia.sk | www.genetika.sk | www.chemia.sk | www.lingvistika.sk | www.politologia.sk | www.psychologia.sk | www.sexuologia.sk | www.sociologia.sk | www.veda.sk I www.zoologia.sk