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Stalingrad 1942 Stalingrad 1942, The battle of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) was a major battle of World War II.1942. It lasted from 17th July 1942 to 2nd February 1943 and ended in defeat of the Germans whose 6th Army had been destroyed. (Photo by Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images)

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Battle of Stalingrad

Prelude to the Battle of Stalingrad In the middle of World War II – having captured territory in much of present-day Ukraine and Belarus in the spring on 1942 – Germany’s Wehrmacht forces decided to mount an offensive on southern Russia in the summer of that year. Under the leadership of ruthless head of state […]

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A French political cartoon critiquing the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Hitler and the Russian Bear are wrestling over a map of Russia and the Crimea. (Photo by Michael Nicholson/Corbis via Getty Images)

Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

Clouds of War in Europe On March 15, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Czechoslovakia, breaking the agreement it had signed with Great Britain and France the year before in Munich, Germany. The invasion jolted British and French leaders and convinced them that Adolf Hitler, the German chancellor, could not be trusted to honor his agreements and […]

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Operation Barbarossa

Operation Barbarossa

German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact In August 1939, Germany signed a mutual non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union, then led by Joseph Stalin, in which the two nations agreed not to take military action against each other for a period of 10 years. Given the long history of bitter conflict between the two nations, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact […]

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KURSK, SOVIET UNION - JULY / AUGUST: Soviet infantry in combat during the Battle of Kursk in 1943 in Russia. It was World War II battle between German and Soviet forces on the Eastern Front fought from July 5 till August 23, 1943. (Photo by Laski Diffusion/Getty Images)

Battle of Kursk

Germany’s Epic Defeat at the Battle of Stalingrad By June 1942, Hitler had advanced into the Soviet Union and hoped to easily take the strategic city of Stalingrad, the namesake city of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. But Stalin rallied both Russian troops and civilians who dug in and vowed to fight to the end. When […]

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Germans advance in USSR

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Largest tank battle in history ends

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Soviets launch counterattack at Stalingrad

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Siege of Leningrad begins

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Battle of Stalingrad ends

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