Operation Barbarossa
1941 · Event
Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union opens the Eastern Front; ~3 million Axis troops attack across 1,800-mile front.
On these timelines: Master, Russia & the USSR, World War II, Germany, Stalingrad
Around 1941
- Apartheid (1948)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Korean War (1950)