Northern Eurasia 1942: Winter Counter-offensive
16 February 1942
16 Feb 1942
The Great Patriotic War: Germany Invades
1816–1914 Late Tsarist Russia
1914–1918 The Great War and the Revolution
1918–1921 The Russian Civil War: The White Phase
1921–1927 The Russian Civil War: The Green Phase
1927–1941 The Soviet Union under Stalin
1941–1943 The Great Patriotic War: Germany Invades
1943–1945 The Great Patriotic War: Germany at Bay
1945–1991 Soviet Superpower
1991–pres Successors of the Soviet Union
Winter Counter-offensive
5 Jul 1941 Operation Barbarossa
1 Sep 1941 Fall of the Ukraine
4 Dec 1941 Battle of Moscow
16 Feb 1942 Winter Counter-offensive
22 Oct 1942 Case Blue
14 Dec 1942 Battle of Stalingrad
On December 5, Soviet reinforcements from Siberia attacked the German troops around Moscow. Further counterattacks over December and January pushed back the German lines.
Meanwhile, on December 7, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and the United States entered the war.