✦ History

Eastern Front (World War II)

June 22, 1941 – January 21, 1955

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.

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Battles 3

1941 – September 26, 1941
Battle of Kiev (1941) Kyiv Semyon Timoshenko, Gerd von Rundstedt, Semyon Budyonny
May 12–29, 1942
Second Battle of Kharkov Kharkiv Semyon Timoshenko, Fedor von Bock
November 19–23, 1942
Operation Uranus Volgograd Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Georgy Zhukov

Key commanders

Allies 7

Semyon Timoshenko military commander Semyon Budyonny military commander Joseph Stalin military commander Georgy Zhukov military commander Konstantin Rokossovsky military commander Nikolai Vatutin military commander Aleksandr Vasilevsky military commander

Axis 3

Gerd von Rundstedt military commander Eberhard von Mackensen military commander Adolf Hitler military commander

Axis powers 25

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 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 19

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 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

Soviet Union 1

Semyon Timoshenko military commander

Nazi Germany 1

Fedor von Bock military commander