Eastern Front

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Location	Europe
Context	World War II

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Examine how Stalin's Red Army defeated Hitler's Fourth and Sixth Armies in the Battle of Stalingrad

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Timeline

Operation Barbarossa

June 22, 1941

Siege of Leningrad

September 8, 1941 - January 27, 1944

Battle of Stalingrad

August 22, 1942 - February 2, 1943

Battle of Kursk

July 5, 1943 - August 23, 1943

Key People

Georgy Zhukov

Soviet marshal

Gerd von Rundstedt

German field marshal

Ivan Stepanovich Konev

Soviet general

Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov

Soviet military and political leader

Heinz Guderian

German general

Heinrich Eberbach

German military officer

Fedor von Bock

German military officer

Günther von Kluge

German general

Paul Ludwig von Kleist

German general

Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky

Soviet commander

Pyotr Nikolayevich Krasnov

Russian officer

Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky

Soviet military officer

Andrey Andreyevich Vlasov

Soviet officer

Walther von Brauchitsch

German military officer

Hasso, baron of Manteuffel

German military strategist

Semyon Timoshenko

Soviet general