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| Battle of Stalingrad Chuikov, Vassili |  |
| Sep Stalingrad Put in charge of defendng Stalingrad
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| 18th Nov Stalingrad Crushes the Romanians & begins to entrap von Paulus's Army
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| Battle of Stalingrad Rokossovsky, Konstantin Konstantinovich | |
| Stalingrad Commands Russian forces on the Don River Front
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| Aug Stalingrad The Russians outflank & encircle the German 6th, 9th & 4th Panzer Armies
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| Battle of Stalingrad Stalin, Joseph | |
| 19th July Stalingrad Orders the Stalingrad Defence Orleans to prepare the city for war immediately
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| Aug Stalingrad Gathers 190,000 men, 350 tanks, 340 planes & 8,000 guns on the Staingrad front
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| 19th Nov Stalingrad The Red Army begins to encircle the German forces besieging Stalingrad
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| Battle of Stalingrad Timoshenko, Semyon | |
| July Stalingrad Moved up to the north-west Front
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| Battle of Stalingrad Yeremenko, Andrei | |
| 4th Aug Stalingrad Arrives in Stalingrad to assume command
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| Battle of Stalingrad Zhukov, Georgi Konstantinovich | |
| 19th Nov Stalingrad Leads the attack on the nth & sth flanks of the Germans
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| 22nd Nov Stalingrad Capture s the supply bridge at Kalach
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| 23rd Nov Stalingrad The 300,000 force of the German Sixth Army is encircled
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| 23rd Nov Stalingrad Zhukov begins attacking the German 5th Army & 4th Panzer Army in the rear
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| 25th Dec Stalingrad Zhukov drives Hoth's army back across Kotelnikov
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| 25th Dec Stalingrad Zhukov drives the German forces in the nth beyond the Chir & Aksay
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| Bombing of Stalingrad Stalin, Joseph | |
| Aug Stalingrad Refuses the Stalingrad to be evacuated in order to make the Russians defend it
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| Capture of Bessarabia Stalin, Joseph | |
| 28th June Bessarabia Succesfully demands Romania hand over Bessarabia to Russia, Germany does not object
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| Capture of Kalach Bridge Vatutin, Nikolai Fyodorovich | |
| 22nd Nov Kalach Bridge Cuts off the German 6th army's main communications
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| 22nd Nov Kalach Bridge Part of Operation Uranus, capture s the only bridge over the Don
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| Capture of Lozovaya Yeremenko, Andrei | |
| Jan Lozovaya Capture s Lozovaya & discovers a German camp with appalling conditions
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| Capture of Rostov Stalin, Joseph | |
| 24th July Rostov The Germans capture Rostov
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| Commander 62nd Army Chuikov, Vassili | |
| 16th July River Don Appointed Commander of the 62nd Army
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| 16th July River Don Appointed Commander of the 62nd Army to hold the Germans west of the River Don
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| Commander 64th Army Abramov, Konstantin Kirkovich | |
| 16th July River Don Appointed Commander of the 64th Army
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| 16th July River Don Appointed Commander of the 64th Army
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| Commander Black Sea Front Petrov, Ivan Efimovich | |
| Appointed Commander of the Black Sea Front
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| Appointed Commander of the Black Sea Front
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| Commander in Chief Voroshilov, Klimenty Efremovich | |
| Aug Appointed Commander -in-Chief, NKVD
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| Aug Appointed Commander -in-Chief, NKVD
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| Commander Rokossovsky, Konstantin Konstantinovich | |
| Appointed Commander of Russian forces opposing the German 6th Army
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| Commander South East Front Yeremenko, Andrei | |
| Aug Stalingrad Appointedmand the front from Stalingrad to Kalmyk in the sth west
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| Aug Stalingrad Appointedmand the front from Stalingrad to Kalmyk in the sth west
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| Commander Stalingrad Front Chuikov, Vassili | |
| Stalingrad Appointed Commander of Stalingrad
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| Commander Stalingrad Front Yeremenko, Andrei | |
| 9th Aug Stalingrad Appointed Commander of the Stalingrad front by Stalin
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| 9th Aug Stalingrad Yeremenko is appointed to command the entire Stalingrad front by Stalin
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| Commander Stalingrad Chuikov, Vassili | |
| Stalingrad Appointed Commander of Stalingrad
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| Composition of Shostakovitch Shostakovitch, Dmitri Dmitriyevich | |
| 11th Aug Leningrad The "Leningrad Symphony" is premiered by a half-starved orchestra
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| Conference of Washington Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich | |
| 18th June Washington A 2nd front is established & atomic research intensified
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| 18th June Washington Molotov gains military assistance & economic aid
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| Conference of Washington Stalin, Joseph | |
| 1st Jan Washington A pact made at the Washington Conference becomes the nucleus of the United Nations
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| 1st Jan Washington Declaration by 26 Allies not to conclude a separate armistice
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| 18th June Washington A 2nd front is established & atomic research intensified
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| 18th June Washington Molotov gains military assistance & economic aid
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| Defense River Don Abramov, Konstantin Kirkovich | |
| 16th July River Don Give the task of defending the River Don
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| Deputy Supreme Commander Zhukov Zhukov, Georgi Konstantinovich | |
| Stalingrad Appointed Deputy Supreme Commander -in-Chief by Stalin
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| Stalingrad Appointed Deputy Supreme Commander -in-Chief by Stalin
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| Diplomacy of Russia Stalin, Joseph | |
| 23rd July Stalin informs Churchill he cannot agree to the postponement of a 2nd front until 1943
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| Aug Moscow Churchill meets Stalin at the Kremlin
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| Aug Moscow Churchill visits Stalin & promises that sth east Europe will be attacked in 1943
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| Aug Moscow Churchill visits Stalin & says there can be no invasion of Europe in 1942
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| Aug Moscow Stalin has the impression that Churchill promises to invade France in 1943
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| Dismissal of Timoshenko Stalin, Joseph | |
| 21st July Stalin dismisses Timoshenko
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| Dismissal of Timoshenko Timoshenko, Semyon | |
| 21st July Stalin dismisses Timoshenko
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| Field Marshal Rokossovsky, Konstantin Konstantinovich | |
| Appointed Commander of the Russian forces opposing the German 6th Army
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| General Secretary CPSU Stalin, Joseph | |
| 9th Aug Stalingrad Yeremenko is appointed to command the entire Stalingrad front by Stalin
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| 9th Aug Stalingrad Yeremenko is appointed to command the entire Stalingrad front by Stalin
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| Invasion of Russia Stalin, Joseph | |
| 5th Jan Moscow Plan s a counter-offensive at the meeting of the Stavka & State Defence Orleans
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| Publication of Asimov Asimov, Isaac | |
| Publication of, "Runaround"
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| Siege of Kharkov Stalin, Joseph | |
| 17th May Barvenko Kleist counter-attacks & forces Timoshenko back
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| 17th May Barvenko Timoshenko requests further support from Stalin who just refuses a withdrawal
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| 17th May Barvenkovo Kleist counter-attacks & forces Timoshenko back
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| 17th May Barvenkovo Timoshenko requests further support from Stalin who just refuses a withdrawal
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| 19th May Barvenko Timoshenko is forced to call off his attack
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| 19th May Barvenkovo Timoshenko is forced to call off his attack
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| Siege of Kharkov Timoshenko, Semyon | |
| Jan Barvenkovo Capture s the Barvenkovo salient
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| Jan Kharkov The Russians under Timosheko lay siege to Kharkov but call it off after 2 months
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| 12th May Kharkov Launches an attack to cut off Kharkov with 640,000 men, 1,200 tanks & 1,000 planes
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| 12th May Kharkov Timoshenko breaks through Heitz's VIII Corps to within 12 miles of Kharkov
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| 17th May Barvenkovo Kleist counter-attacks & forces Timoshenko back
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| 17th May Barvenkovo Timoshenko requests further support from Stalin who just refuses withdrawal
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| 19th May Barvenkovo The "Barvenkovo mousetrap" is sprung by Kleist & Paulus, 240,000 Russians are taken
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| 19th May Barvenkovo Timoshenko calls off his offensive after Kleists advance into the Barvenko salient
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| Siege of River Don Chuikov, Vassili | |
| 25th July River Don The Germans attack the 64th Army on the River Don
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| Siege of River Don Richthofen, Wolfram von | |
| 25th July River Don The Germans attack the 64th Army on the River Don
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| Siege of River Don Utvenko, Alexander | |
| 26th July River Don The 33rd Guards lose 1,000 men & are forced to retreat
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| Siege of Sevastopol Petrov, Ivan Efimovich | |
| Sevastopol Defends Sevastopol for several months before it is capture d by the Germans
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| Siege of Stalingrad Vatutin, Nikolai Fyodorovich | |
| Stalingrad Commands the sth western forces
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| Siege of Stalingrad Yeremenko, Andrei | |
| 9th Aug Stalingrad Appointed Commander of the Stalingrad front by Stalin
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| Siege of Voronezh Vatutin, Nikolai Fyodorovich | |
| 5th July Voronezh Creates a new front & forces Bock to divert both Paulus & Hoth to deal with it
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| 5th July Voronezh Hoth reaches Voronezh, Vatutin is ordered to create a new Voronezh Front
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| Treaty of Anglo Soviet Stalin, Joseph | |
| 26th May London An Anglo -Soviet treaty of Alliance is signed in London
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| United Nations Foundation Stalin, Joseph | |
| 1st Jan Washington A pact made at the Washington Conference becomes the nucleus of the United Nations
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| 1st Jan Washington Declaration by 26 Allies not to conclude a separate armistice, the pact becomes the UN
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