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
Around 1941
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Founding of the State of Israel (1948)
- Cold War (1947)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Korean War (1950)
- D-Day (Operation Overlord) (1944)
- Pop music: the 1940s (1940)
- Pop music: the 1950s (1950)
- Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)
- United Nations founded (1945)