eastern front
Dawn-ward building face
An eastern front is the eastern theater of a military conflict, where forces engage along the eastern boundary of contested territory.
The term describes any wartime eastern battleground: The commander shifted reserves to reinforce the eastern front. (Capitalized Eastern Front typically refers to the World War II theater between Germany and the Soviet Union.)
- Operation BarbarossaNazi Soviet invasion
- encirclementSurrounding enemy forces completely
- frontlineCombat's forward position
- no man's landUnowned space between enemies
- attritionGradual reduction through loss
advance · partisan warfare · trench warfare · siege · trenches · retreat · offensive · supply lines · brutal · artillery · frozen · tanks · scorched earth · counteroffensives · infantry · human wave · resistance movements · tank warfare
- World War Itrenches, trench warfare, soldiers, battlefields, Treaty of Versailles
- frontsfrontline, storefront, waterfront, beachfront, lakefront
- Ukraine WarUkraine, Kherson, Mariupol, Kyiv, Donetsk
- warfarebattle, combat, attack, war, armed conflict
- Polish Historypartitions, Piast dynasty, Pulaski, September 1939, Warsaw Ghetto
- Ukraine mapsregional maps, Galicia, Kharkiv, city plans, railway maps
strategic priority (wwii german perspective)
eastern frontAtlantic Wall
WWII coastal fortification network