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13 hours ago · Operation Barbarossa (German: Unternehmen Barbarossa; Russian: Операция Барбаросса, romanized: Operatsiya Barbarossa) was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during the Second World War. It was the largest land offensive in human history, with around ...
- Frederick Barbarossa
Frederick Barbarossa (December 1122 – 10 June 1190), also...
- Battle of Moscow
The Battle of Moscow was a military campaign that consisted...
- Operation Silver Fox
Operation Silver Fox (German: Silberfuchs; Finnish:...
- Operation Otto
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- Operation Haifisch
Elaborated by Wilhelm Keitel and designated to begin in...
- Order of Battle for Operation Barbarossa
German advances during the opening phases of Operation...
- Wilhelm Ritter Von Leeb
Wilhelm Josef Franz Ritter von Leeb (5 September 1876 – 29...
- Mikhail Kirponos
Mikhail Petrovich Kirponos (Russian: Михаи́л Петро́вич...
- A-A Line
Visual representation of the A-A line for the general German...
- Army Norway
Army Norway, (Armeeoberkommando Norwegen, abbreviated AOK...
- Frederick Barbarossa
13 hours ago · The Black Sea Fleet was commanded by Vice Admiral F.S. Oktyabrskiy on the outbreak of war with Germany in June 1941. World War II [ edit ] Main articles: Soviet Navy surface raids on Western Black Sea , Black Sea Campaigns (1941–44) , Soviet Black Sea Fleet during the Battle of Stalingrad , and Romanian Navy during World War II
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13 hours ago · On 22 June 1941, German armies with Romanian support attacked the Soviet Union. German and Romanian units conquered Bessarabia, Odessa, and Sevastopol, then marched eastward across the Russian steppes toward Stalingrad. Romania welcomed the war because they were allies with Germany.
13 hours ago · The Russian Civil War [p] (7 November 1917 — 16 June 1923) [11] was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire sparked by the overthrowing of the social-democratic Russian Provisional Government in the October Revolution, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future.
13 hours ago · The groundwork of the Russian Empire was laid by Ivan III ( r.1462–1505 ), who greatly expanded his domain, established a centralized Russian national state, and secured independence against the Tatars. His grandson, Ivan IV ( r.1533–1584 ), became in 1547 the first Russian monarch to be crowned " tsar of all Russia ".
13 hours ago · Karl Dönitz (sometimes spelled Doenitz; German: [ˈdøːnɪts] ⓘ; 16 September 1891 – 24 December 1980) was a German admiral who briefly succeeded Adolf Hitler as head of state in May 1945, holding the position until the dissolution of the Flensburg Government following Germany's unconditional surrender to the Allies days later.
13 hours ago · As a result of the Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774), the Ottomans had forces in Circassia. They were seen as fellow Muslim allies by the Circassians. The Cossacks defended the village of Naur against a strong Circassian-Turkish combined army of 8,000 men. The Circassian Revolution began in 1770.