Battle of Moscow
1941–1942 · Event
Soviets stop the Wehrmacht at the gates of Moscow in December 1941; first major German defeat; Blitzkrieg myth shattered.
On these timelines: Russia & the USSR, Germany, Master, World War II, Stalingrad
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- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Peter the Great (1672)
- Stalin's rule of the Soviet Union (1924)
- Joseph Stalin (1878)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870)
- Lenin's leadership of Soviet Russia (1917)
- Catherine the Great (1729)
- Christianisation of Kievan Rus' (988)
Around 1941
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- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Korean War (1950)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- World War II (1939)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- The Holocaust (1941)