Contents
First Weeks of War (June 22 - July 9, 1941)
Barbarossa Plan | German aviation bombs Soviet cities | High Command Headquarters established | Soviet mechanized Corps counterassault | People’s Militia | Treaty between the USSR and Great Britain
A German Offensive on all Fronts (July 10 - October 1, 1941)
Situation as of July 9, 1941 | The enemy begins offensive on Leningrad | One of the first applications of Katyusha MRL | First German air assault on Moscow | Defense of Odessa | The siege of Leningrad begins
Barbarossa Failure (October 1 — December 4, 1941)
Situation at the end of September 1941 | Surrounding near Vyazma | Moscow on High Alert | Parade on Red Square | Evacuation from Hanko Peninsula | German offensive on Eastern Front halted
Soviet Counterassault (December 5, 1941 — April 14, 1942)
Results of the summer-autumn campaign of 1941 | Wehrmacht switches to defensive | Liberation of Kerch Peninsula | Starvation in besieged Leningrad | The end of 33rd army
The Wehrmacht Strikes in the South (April 15 — July 4, 1942)
Results of the Red Army’s winter counterassault | The Crimean Front disaster | Luftwaffe air strike on Murmansk | Fall of Sevastopol
The Hardest Days (July 5 — August 24, 1942)
Situation at the beginning of July, 1942 | Wehrmacht assault on Stalingrad | Order № 227 | Air strikes on Berlin
The Wehrmacht Last Thrust (August 25 — November 18, 1942)
Situation at the end of August 1942 | Street combat in Stalingrad | Fightings on Lake Ladoga | The Germans stopped in the Caucasus
The Red Army Takes Over the Initiative (November 19, 1942 - March 13, 1943)
Wehrmacht on the verge of disaster | Red Army's counterassault near Stalingrad | Operation Mars | Surrender of Paulus' 6th Army | Malaya Zemlya | Red Army's defeat near Kharkov
Operations Standstill (Mid-March - beginning of July 1943)
Situation at the end of March 1943 | Soviet aviation strikes on Koenigsberg | Kuban air battle | Luftwaffe air strikes on Volga cities
Radical Turn of the Tide (July 5 — August 24, 1943)
Preparation for the decisive battle | Wehrmacht offensive on Kursk | The tank battle of Prokhorovka | The overthrow of Mussolini in Italy | First festive fireworks show in Moscow
The Soviet Advance Continues (August 25, 1943 - January 13, 1944)
Situation at the end of Summer 1943 | Beginning of Ukraine's liberation | Germany occupation of Central and Northern Italy | The German troops driven from the Caucasus | Teheran conference
Victories in the north and south (Winter - Spring 1944)
Situation at the end of 1943 | Lifting of the siege of Leningrad | The Red Army is on the border of the USSR | Ultimatum for Axis satellites | Opening of the Second Front
Liberation of Europe (Summer 1944 — January 1945)
Situation at the end of June 1944 | German group Center crush defeated | Warsaw uprising | Anti-fascist coup in Romania | The Red Army enters Germany | Surrounding of Budapest
The Last Stride To Victory (Mid-January — May 1945)
The Third Reich on the verge of collapse | Liberation of Warsaw | Battles near Lake Balaton | Surrounding of Berlin | Capitulation of Germany
Soviet–Japanese War. End of World War II (Spring — Summer 1945)
Soviet-Japanese Relations during World War II | Redeployment of troops to the Far East | Potsdam conference | Atomic bombing of Hiroshima | Declaration of war against Japan | The Kwantung Army ceases resistance | Surrender of Japan
