Eastern Front (World War II)
June 22, 1941 – January 21, 1955 · Soviet Union
The Axis powers fought the Soviet Union from the German invasion in 1941 until Germany's defeat in 1945. It was the largest and deadliest theater of the war.
Sides
Axis powers
Adolf Hitler
belligerent leader
Benito Mussolini
belligerent leader
Hermann Göring
belligerent leader
Heinrich Himmler
belligerent leader
Karl Dönitz
belligerent leader
Wilhelm Keitel
belligerent leader
Alfred Jodl
belligerent leader
Erich Raeder
belligerent leader
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Erich von Manstein
belligerent leader
Gerd von Rundstedt
belligerent leader
Risto Ryti
belligerent leader
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
belligerent leader
Ferenc Szálasi
belligerent leader
Ion Antonescu
belligerent leader
Jozef Tiso
belligerent leader
Fedor von Bock
belligerent leader
Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb
belligerent leader
Franz Halder
belligerent leader
Walter Model
belligerent leader
Günther von Kluge
belligerent leader
Ferdinand Schörner
belligerent leader
Walther von Brauchitsch
belligerent leader
Maximilian von Weichs
belligerent leader
Wilhelm List
belligerent leader
Lothar Rendulic
belligerent leader
Allies of World War II
Joseph Stalin
belligerent leader
Rodion Malinovsky
belligerent leader
Semyon Timoshenko
belligerent leader
Kliment Voroshilov
belligerent leader
Kimon Georgiev
belligerent leader
Constantin Sănătescu
belligerent leader
Nicolae Rădescu
belligerent leader
Bolesław Bierut
belligerent leader
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Michael I of Romania
belligerent leader
Georgy Zhukov
belligerent leader
Konstantin Rokossovsky
belligerent leader
Nikolai Vatutin
belligerent leader
Ivan Konev
belligerent leader
Semyon Budyonny
belligerent leader
Aleksandr Vasilevsky
belligerent leader
Vasily Sokolovsky
belligerent leader
Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin
belligerent leader
Lavrentiy Beria
belligerent leader
Markian Popov
belligerent leader
Battles 3
- Battle of Kiev (1941) 1941 – September 26, 1941
- Second Battle of Kharkov May 12–29, 1942
- Operation Uranus November 19–23, 1942