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2 days ago · U.S. tanks entering bomb-damaged Nürnberg, Germany, April 1945. At last, in the night of March 23–24, Montgomery’s attack by 25 divisions was launched across a stretch—30 miles long—of the Rhine near Wesel after a stupendous bombardment by more than 3,000 guns and waves of attacks by bombers.
2 days ago · The Soviet invasion of Poland was a military conflict by the Soviet Union without a formal declaration of war. On 17 September 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east, 16 days after Nazi Germany invaded Poland from the west.
- 17 September-6 October 1939
- Soviet victory
- Poland
14 hours ago · The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II and lasted to 1991, the fall of the Soviet Union. The term cold war is used because there was no large-scale fighting ...
2 days ago · Over the course of the operation, over 3.8 million personnel of the Axis powers—the largest invasion force in the history of warfare —invaded the western Soviet Union, along a 2,900-kilometer (1,800 mi) front, with 600,000 motor vehicles and over 600,000 horses for non-combat operations.
3 days ago · As one crisis in the American-Soviet relations followed another, the feeling emerged that the victory in the war was stolen from the West; the dying Roosevelt and the Yalta Conference emerged as shorthand explanations for the failures of the post-war period.
3 days ago · The Soviet offensive opened on January 12, 1945, when Konev’s armies were launched against the German front in southern Poland, starting from their bridgehead over the Vistula River near Sandomierz.
4 days ago · The Soviet Union aimed to expand its influence in Eastern Europe, while the US sought to contain the spread of communism. 3. Yalta and Potsdam Conferences: Tensions emerged at the Yalta (February 1945) and Potsdam (July-August 1945) conferences, where the Allied leaders discussed the post
