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| Ambassador USA Litvinov Litvinov, Maxim Maximovich |  |
| Washington Appointed Ambassador to USA
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| Arrest of German Spies Beria, Lavrenti Pavlovich | |
| 29th April Moscow Informed that 3 groups of German spies had been caught inside the Russian border
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| Arrest of Stalin Stalin, Yakov | |
| 16th July Vitebsk In line with Russian policy soldiers capture d by Germans are treated as traitors
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| 16th July Vitebsk Stalin's son is capture d
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| Battle of Moscow Vlassov, Andrei | |
| Moscow Commands the 20th Army during the Battle of Moscow
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| Battle of Smolensk Stalin, Joseph | |
| 10th July Smolensk 1st day of the battle of Smolensk
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| 18th Aug Smolensk About 300,000 Russian prisoners are taken
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| Broadcast Stalin Stalin, Joseph | |
| 3rd July Moscow Addresses the Russian people as "brothers & sister"
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| 3rd July Moscow Warns Russia of the danger of the German invasion
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| Capture of Berlin Zhukov, Georgi Konstantinovich | |
| Berlin Commands the Russian forces which capture Berlin
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| Capture of Lozovaya Timoshenko, Semyon | |
| Jan Lozovaya Capture s Lozovaya & discovers a German camp with appalling conditions
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| Chairman Council Commissars Stalin Stalin, Joseph | |
| Moscow Appointed Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
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| Chairman Defence Committee Voroshilov Voroshilov, Klimenty Efremovich | |
| Aug Moscow Appointed Chairman of the recently formed State Defence Orleans
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| Chairman Sovnarkom Beria Beria, Lavrenti Pavlovich | |
| Appointed Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, Deputy Chair of Sovnarkom
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| Chief of Staff Zhukov, Georgi Konstantinovich | |
| Jan Appointed Chief-of-Staff of the Red Army
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| Jan Appointed Chief-of-Staff of the Red Army
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| Comintern Stalin, Joseph | |
| The Anti-Comintern Pact is renewed with 11 additional countries as signatories
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| Commander 20th Army Vlassov, Andrei | |
| Appointed Commander of 20th Army
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| Appointed Commander of 20th Army
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| Commander in Chief Budenny, Semyon Mikhaylovich | |
| Appointed Commander -in-Chief, Southwestern Front
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| Appointed Commander -in-Chief, Southwestern Front after the German invasion of Russia
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| Commander Northwest Front Voroshilov, Klimenty Efremovich | |
| Aug Appointed Commander of the Armies in the Northwest Front
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| Aug Appointed Commander of the Armies in the Northwest Front
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| Commissar Defense Stalin, Joseph | |
| 22nd June Takes over military operations after the German Invasion of Russia
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| Commissar Defense Stalin Stalin, Joseph | |
| 22nd June Appointed Commander of military operations after the German Invasion of Russia
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| Composition of Rachmaninov Rachmaninov, Sergei Vasilyevich | |
| Composes, "Symponic Dances"
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| Composition of Shostakovitch Shostakovitch, Dmitri Dmitriyevich | |
| Composes, "The Seventh Symphony", about the German siege of Leningrad
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| Declaration of War Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich | |
| 22nd June Berlin Schulenberg delivers Germany's declaration of war to Molotov
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| Declaration of War Stalin, Joseph | |
| 21st June Germany declares war on Russia shortly after the invasion
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| Defence Committee Beria Beria, Lavrenti Pavlovich | |
| Aug Moscow Appointed Member of the recently formed State Defence Orleans
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| Defence Committee Molotov Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich | |
| Aug Moscow Appointed Member of the recently formed State Defence Orleans
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| Defence Committee Stalin Stalin, Joseph | |
| Aug Moscow Appointed Member of the recently formed State Defence Orleans
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| Deputy Prime Minister Russia Beria Beria, Lavrenti Pavlovich | |
| Appointed Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, Deputy Chair of Sovnarkom
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| Deputy Supreme Commander Zhukov Zhukov, Georgi Konstantinovich | |
| Appointed Deputy Supreme Commander -in-Chief
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| Appointed Deputy Supreme Commander -in-Chief
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| Diplomacy of Russia Oumansky, Constantin | |
| Given a mixture of barter & credit through the Reconstruction Finance Corporation
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| Informed by Roosevelt of USAsupport after the attack by Germany
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| Diplomacy of Russia Stalin, Joseph | |
| 10th Jan Germany & Russia sign a fresh treaty recognizing spheres of influence & trade
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| 13th April Japan & Russia sign a neutrality pact
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| Dismissal of Budenny Budenny, Semyon Mikhaylovich | |
| 18th Sep Replaced by Marshal Timoshenko just before the capture of Kiev
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| Dismissal of Zhukov Zhukov, Georgi Konstantinovich | |
| Aug Kiev Dismissed by Stalin for adivising that Kiev should be evacuated
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| GKO Stalin, Joseph | |
| Founds the State Defence Orleans to run the war
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| Invasion of Russia Budenny, Semyon Mikhaylovich | |
| Ukraine Has 69 Divisions to hold the Ukraine
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| Invasion of Russia Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich | |
| 22nd June Moscow Announces over the radio to the Russian people that Germany has invade d Russia
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| Invasion of Russia Stalin, Joseph | |
| 3rd April Churchill warns Stalin the Germans had regrouped in order to invade Russia
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| 21st June All forces are placed on alert
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| 22nd June At 3:40 German planes bomb Russian border cities
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| 22nd June Stalin is so demoralized by the German invasion that he remains drunk for 11 days
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| 26th June Builds a reserve front 300 km behind the front
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| 26th June The western front is broken & the Germans charge towards Minsk
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| July By mid July Russia has lost 3,500 tanks, 6,000 aircraft & 2 million men
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| 3rd July Moscow Warns Russia of the danger of the German invasion during a broadcast
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| 5th Oct Stalin calls an emergency session of the State Defence Orleans
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| 17th Nov Orders Red Army units to destroy all houses & farms 40 miles behind the German lines
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| Invasion of Russia Timoshenko, Semyon | |
| 21st June Timoshenko & Zhukov co-sign the order to put all forces on alert
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| 20th Nov Rostov on Don Kleist's Panzers seize a bridge over the Don but are forced back by Timoshenko
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| Invasion of Russia Vatutin, Nikolai Fyodorovich | |
| 22nd June Informs the Politburo of the invasion by German forces
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| Invasion of Russia Zhukov, Georgi Konstantinovich | |
| 25th Feb Zhukov issues a secret directive naming Germany as a probable enemyand instructs frontier regions to make preparations
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| 21st June Timoshenko & Zhukov co-sign the order to put all forces on alert
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| 22nd June Kiel Ordered by Stalin to begin counter-offensve operations
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| 24th June Kiel Sends the 8th & 15th mechanized corps on the offensive
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| Leningrad Soviet Voroshilov, Klimenty Efremovich | |
| Aug Leningrad Helps found the Military Soviet for the Defence of Leningrad
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| Leningrad Soviet Zhadnov, Andrei Aleksandrovich | |
| Aug Leningrad Helps found the Military Soviet for the Defence of Leningrad
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| Medal Vlassov Vlassov, Andrei | |
| Moscow Awarded the Order of the Red Banner after the Battle of Moscow
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| Moscow Canal Stalin, Joseph | |
| Moscow The Moscow-Volga Canal is completed
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| Operation Barbarossa Timoshenko, Semyon | |
| 20th Nov Rostov on Don Kleist's Panzers seize a bridge over the Don but are forced back by Timoshenko
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| Pact Russia Japan Stalin, Joseph | |
| April Japan & Russia sign a mutual neutrality pact
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| Reform of Army Zhukov, Georgi Konstantinovich | |
| 15th July Moscow Reduces armies to 5 or 6 divisions so they are more mobile & less of an aerial target
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| Siege of Kiev Budenny, Semyon Mikhaylovich | |
| Kiev Overwhelmed by a double encirclement of his forces at Kiev
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| Aug Kiev Defends Kiev, Stalin refuses to allow any withdrawal from Kiev
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| Siege of Kiev Stalin, Joseph | |
| 21st Sep Kiev Orders the evacuation of Kiev, 665,000 Russian prisoners are capture d
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| Siege of Leningrad Zhukov, Georgi Konstantinovich | |
| 13th Sep Leningrad Arrives in Leningrad to co-ordinate its defenses
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| 13th Sep Leningrad By the end of the month the Germans give up storming the City & dig in for a siege
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| Siege of Moscow Beria, Lavrenti Pavlovich | |
| 15th Oct Moscow Prepares to evacuate his HQ from Moscow
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| 19th Oct Moscow A state of siege is declared
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| 19th Oct Moscow Beria brings in several regiments of the NKVD in to preserve order
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| Siege of Moscow Bulganin, Nikolai Aleksandrovich | |
| Moscow Helps organize the defence of Moscow
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| Siege of Moscow Stalin, Joseph | |
| Sep Moscow Part of the administration is moved but Stalin stays in Moscow
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| 30th Sep Moscow The Germans begin their final offensive to take Moscow
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| 8th Nov Moscow Announces, "If they want a war of extermination they shall have one"
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| 9th Nov Moscow Stages a symbollically important parade in Red Square
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| 15th Nov Moscow The Germans begin their 2nd offensive against Moscow
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| 25th Nov Moscow Some German units advance into the southern suburbs of Moscow
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| 5th Dec Moscow 720,000 Russian soldiers drive back 800,000 Germans
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| 5th Dec Moscow German forces lose mre than 500,000 men, Hitler's biggest loss to date
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| 5th Dec Moscow Russian forces launch a counter-attack
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| 5th Dec Moscow The German attack on Moscow is contained
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| Siege of Moscow Yeremenko, Andrei | |
| Aug Moscow Ordered by Stalin to organize a new Bryansk Front to defend Moscow
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| 30th Sep Moscow Guderian takes Yeremenko by surprise when he begins to attack Moscow
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| Siege of Moscow Zhukov, Georgi Konstantinovich | |
| 6th Oct Moscow Ordered by Stalin from Leningrad to create a new western front to defend Moscow
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| 25th Nov Moscow Orders Rokossovsky to hold the line at Kryukovo with the remants his 16th Army
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| 25th Nov Moscow Orders that "there be no further falling back"
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| 6th Dec Moscow 1st Shock Army & the 16th Army attack the inner side of the German salient
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| 6th Dec Moscow Launches an attack of the German inner salient with the 16th Army
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| Siege of Odessa Petrov, Ivan Efimovich | |
| Odessa Given the task of defending Odessa but is defeated & forced to withdraw to the Crimea
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| Stavka Stalin, Joseph | |
| 22nd June Sets up a supreme general-staff HQ
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| Supreme Commander Stalin Stalin, Joseph | |
| 22nd June Moscow Appointed Supreme Commander of the Soviet Armed Forces
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| 22nd June Moscow Appointed Supreme Commander of the Soviet Armed Forces
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| Treaty of Friendship Stalin, Joseph | |
| 5th April Moscow Signs the Treaty of Friendship with the new Government of Yugoslavia
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