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Battles of World War II involving Hungary

  • Battle of UmanThe Battle of Uman began on the 15th of July 1941 and lasted just over three weeks, yet in that time the Wehrmacht encircled and destroyed two entire Soviet…
  • Budapest offensiveThe Budapest offensive began on the 29th of October 1944, as Soviet and Romanian armies launched a sustained assault against Hungary and its Axis partners.
  • Vienna offensiveJoseph Stalin reached an agreement with the Western Allies prior to April 1945 concerning the relative postwar political influence of each party in much of…
  • Battle of StalingradThe Battle of Stalingrad was a fight that consumed an entire city and changed the course of the Second World War. By the time it ended on the 2nd of February…
  • Case BlueCase Blue, known in German as Fall Blau, was the Wehrmacht's grand plan for the summer of 1942 on the Eastern Front. It ran from the 28th of June to the 24th…
  • Invasion of YugoslaviaOn the morning of the 27th of March 1941, a group of Yugoslav military officers executed a coup d'état in Belgrade. They forced Regent Prince Paul to resign…
  • Prague offensiveThe Prague offensive was the last major military operation of World War II in Europe, fought between the 6th and the 11th of May 1945.
  • Operation Spring AwakeningOn the 12th of January 1945, Adolf Hitler received confirmation that the Soviet Red Army had begun a massive winter offensive through Poland.
  • Operation BagrationOperation Bagration began on the 22nd of June 1944, exactly three years to the day after Germany launched its invasion of the Soviet Union.
  • Dnieper–Carpathian offensiveThe Dnieper-Carpathian offensive, fought from late December 1943 to early May 1944, was one of the largest military operations in the history of the Second…
  • Second Battle of KharkovThe Second Battle of Kharkov began at 6:30 in the morning on the 12th of May 1942, with a concentrated hour-long artillery bombardment crashing into German…
  • Siege of BudapestThe Siege of Budapest lasted exactly fifty days. When it ended on the 13th of February 1945, more than eighty percent of the city's buildings had been…