The Battle of Moscow was a German-Soviet campaign on the Eastern Front of World War II from 2 October 1941 to 7 January 1942, in which German forces under Operation Typhoon attempted a pincer offensive against Moscow, the Soviet capital. Soviet defensive efforts, followed by a counter-offensive, halted the German advance and forced German armies back, ending in a Soviet victory that ended German hopes of a swift victory over the Soviet Union. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Battle TypeLarge-scale offensive and defensive battle 1 LocationMoscow Oblast, Soviet Union 1 Battle Type
Battle Type (category) Battle Type (category)Offensive / Combined-Arms 1 Connections
Led By
Additional Source Wikipedia: Battle of MoscowInfobox: Commanders (Soviet, Western Front)
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As the German offensives were halted, a Soviet strategic counter-offensive and smaller-scale offensive operations forced the German armies back to the positions around the cities of Oryol, Vyazma and Vitebsk, and nearly surrounded three German armies.
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The Battle of Moscow was a military campaign that consisted of two periods of strategically significant fighting on a 600 km (370 mi) sector of the Eastern Front during World War II, between October 1941 and January 1942.
Infobox: Location
Moscow Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Infobox: Result
Soviet victory
Part Of: Eastern Front (World War II), Infobox: part_of
the Eastern Front of World War II
Led By: Georgy Zhukov, Infobox: Commanders (Soviet, Western Front)
Georgy Zhukov
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