Operation Barbarossa
1941 · Event
Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union opens the Eastern Front: more than 3 million German troops and some 650,000 allied troops attack along a front of about 1,800 miles.
On these timelines: Master, Russia & the USSR, World War II, Germany, Stalingrad
Around 1941
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Korean War (1950)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)