Eastern Front
Barbarossa's battlefield region
The Eastern Front refers to the theater of World War II where Nazi Germany fought the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1945.
It was the largest and deadliest military confrontation in history, with tens of millions of casualties.
The term also applies to the World War I battleground between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Russia.
His grandfather fought on the Eastern Front. (Lowercase eastern front describes any military theater on the east.)
- Operation BarbarossaNazi Soviet invasion
- Siege of LeningradProlonged WWII encirclement causing mass famine
- bitter coldExtremely low temperature
- KurskRussian city and submarine
- tank battleCombat between armored vehicles
Stalingrad · Red Army · Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact · Wehrmacht · Nazi Germany · Treaty of Brest-Litovsk · Soviet Union · panzer · iron cross · Battle of Stalingrad · no retreat · World War II · scorched earth · partisan warfare · Moscow · Luftwaffe · Belarus · Ukraine
- World War IIAllies, Nazi, Hitler, Axis, Third Reich
- WWItrenches, no man's land, no mans land, trench warfare, armistice
- WWIID-Day, Pearl Harbor, Normandy, Hiroshima, Holocaust
- Easteastern, eastbound, easterly, eastward, Orient
- WWI militarytrenches, ANZAC, trench warfare, Tommies, no man's land
- WWII EuropeNormandy, Operation Overlord, Battle of Britain, D-Day, Utah Beach
Eastern FrontWestern Front
Franco-Belgian combat zone
western theater · Pacific Theater · Battle of the Atlantic · Pacific War · Western Europe