<Table> <Tr> <Th colspan="2"> Eastern Front </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td colspan="2"> Part of the European theatre of World War II </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td colspan="2"> Clockwise from top left : Soviet Il - 2 ground attack aircraft in Berlin sky ; German Tiger I tanks during the Battle of Kursk ; German Stuka dive bombers on the Eastern Front , December 1943 ; Killings of Jews by German Einsatzgruppen in Ukraine ; Wilhelm Keitel signing the German Instrument of Surrender ; Soviet troops in the Battle of Stalingrad </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td colspan="2"> <Table> <Tr> <Th> Date </Th> <Td> 22 June 1941 ( 1941 - 06 - 22 ) -- 25 May 1945 ( 1945 - 05 - 25 ) ( 3 years , 11 months and 3 days ) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Location </Th> <Td> Europe east of Germany : Central and Eastern Europe , in later stages Germany and Austria </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Result </Th> <Td> <P> Soviet victory </P> <Ul> <Li> Soviet Union occupies Central , Eastern , Northeastern and Southeastern Europe and establishes pro-Soviet communist puppet governments in countries including Bulgaria , Czechoslovakia , Hungary , Poland , Romania , and Eastern Germany . </Li> <Li> Establishment of the Federal People 's Republic of Yugoslavia . </Li> <Li> Beginning of the Cold War and the creation of the Iron Curtain . </Li> <Li> The beginning of the Greek Civil War . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Territorial changes </Th> <Td> <Ul> <Li> Partition of Germany </Li> <Li> Borders of Poland changed . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> </Table> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th colspan="2"> Belligerents </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Axis powers <Ul> <Li> Germany </Li> <Li> Romania ( until 1944 ) </Li> <Li> Italy ( until 1943 ) </Li> <Li> Hungary </Li> <Li> Bulgaria ( from 5th until 9th September 1944 ) </Li> </Ul> Axis puppet states <Ul> <Li> Slovakia </Li> <Li> Croatia </Li> </Ul> Co-belligerents <Ul> <Li> Finland ( until 1944 ) </Li> </Ul> </Td> <Td> Allies <Ul> <Li> Soviet Union </Li> <Li> Poland </Li> <Li> Czechoslovakia ( from 1943 ) </Li> <Li> Yugoslavia ( from 1944 ) </Li> <Li> Tuva ( until 1944 ) </Li> </Ul> Former Axis powers or co-belligerents <Ul> <Li> Romania ( from 1944 ) </Li> <Li> Bulgaria ( from 1944 ) </Li> <Li> Finland ( from 1944 ) </Li> </Ul> Aerial and naval only <Ul> <Li> United States </Li> <Li> United Kingdom </Li> <Li> Free France ( 1943 -- 45 ) </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th colspan="2"> Commanders and leaders </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> Adolf Hitler ( commander - in - chief ) </Li> <Li> Walther von Brauchitsch </Li> <Li> Fedor von Bock </Li> <Li> Franz Halder </Li> <Li> Kurt Zeitzler </Li> <Li> Erich von Manstein </Li> <Li> Heinz Guderian </Li> <Li> Heinrich Himmler </Li> <Li> Gerd von Rundstedt </Li> <Li> Ion Antonescu </Li> <Li> Benito Mussolini </Li> <Li> Miklós Horthy </Li> <Li> Ferenc Szálasi </Li> <Li> Boris III </Li> <Li> Jozef Tiso </Li> <Li> Ante Pavelić </Li> <Li> Risto Ryti </Li> </Ul> </Td> <Td> <Ul> <Li> Joseph Stalin ( commander - in - chief ) </Li> <Li> Georgy Zhukov </Li> <Li> Boris Shaposhnikov </Li> <Li> Aleksandr Vasilevsky </Li> <Li> Semyon Timoshenko </Li> <Li> Aleksei Antonov </Li> <Li> Ivan Konev </Li> <Li> Ivan Bagramyan </Li> <Li> Konstantin Rokossovsky </Li> <Li> Vasily Chuikov </Li> <Li> Nikita Khrushchev </Li> <Li> Josip Broz Tito </Li> <Li> Zygmunt Berling </Li> <Li> Ludvik Svoboda </Li> <Li> Michael I of Romania </Li> <Li> Nicolae Rădescu </Li> <Li> Kimon Georgiev </Li> <Li> C.G.E. Mannerheim </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th colspan="2"> Strength </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> 1941 3,767,000 troops </Li> <Li> 1943 3,933,000 troops </Li> <Li> 1945 1,960,000 troops </Li> </Ul> </Td> <Td> <Ul> <Li> 1941 2,680,000 troops 14,000,000 reserves ( former conscripts ) </Li> <Li> 1943 6,724,000 troops </Li> <Li> 1945 6,410,000 troops </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th colspan="2"> Casualties and losses </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> See below </Td> <Td> See below </Td> </Tr> </Table>
<Table> <Tr> <Th colspan="2"> Eastern Front </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td colspan="2"> Part of the European theatre of World War II </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td colspan="2"> Clockwise from top left : Soviet Il - 2 ground attack aircraft in Berlin sky ; German Tiger I tanks during the Battle of Kursk ; German Stuka dive bombers on the Eastern Front , December 1943 ; Killings of Jews by German Einsatzgruppen in Ukraine ; Wilhelm Keitel signing the German Instrument of Surrender ; Soviet troops in the Battle of Stalingrad </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td colspan="2"> <Table> <Tr> <Th> Date </Th> <Td> 22 June 1941 ( 1941 - 06 - 22 ) -- 25 May 1945 ( 1945 - 05 - 25 ) ( 3 years , 11 months and 3 days ) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Location </Th> <Td> Europe east of Germany : Central and Eastern Europe , in later stages Germany and Austria </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Result </Th> <Td> <P> Soviet victory </P> <Ul> <Li> Soviet Union occupies Central , Eastern , Northeastern and Southeastern Europe and establishes pro-Soviet communist puppet governments in countries including Bulgaria , Czechoslovakia , Hungary , Poland , Romania , and Eastern Germany . </Li> <Li> Establishment of the Federal People 's Republic of Yugoslavia . </Li> <Li> Beginning of the Cold War and the creation of the Iron Curtain . </Li> <Li> The beginning of the Greek Civil War . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Territorial changes </Th> <Td> <Ul> <Li> Partition of Germany </Li> <Li> Borders of Poland changed . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> </Table> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th colspan="2"> Belligerents </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Axis powers <Ul> <Li> Germany </Li> <Li> Romania ( until 1944 ) </Li> <Li> Italy ( until 1943 ) </Li> <Li> Hungary </Li> <Li> Bulgaria ( from 5th until 9th September 1944 ) </Li> </Ul> Axis puppet states <Ul> <Li> Slovakia </Li> <Li> Croatia </Li> </Ul> Co-belligerents <Ul> <Li> Finland ( until 1944 ) </Li> </Ul> </Td> <Td> Allies <Ul> <Li> Soviet Union </Li> <Li> Poland </Li> <Li> Czechoslovakia ( from 1943 ) </Li> <Li> Yugoslavia ( from 1944 ) </Li> <Li> Tuva ( until 1944 ) </Li> </Ul> Former Axis powers or co-belligerents <Ul> <Li> Romania ( from 1944 ) </Li> <Li> Bulgaria ( from 1944 ) </Li> <Li> Finland ( from 1944 ) </Li> </Ul> Aerial and naval only <Ul> <Li> United States </Li> <Li> United Kingdom </Li> <Li> Free France ( 1943 -- 45 ) </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th colspan="2"> Commanders and leaders </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> Adolf Hitler ( commander - in - chief ) </Li> <Li> Walther von Brauchitsch </Li> <Li> Fedor von Bock </Li> <Li> Franz Halder </Li> <Li> Kurt Zeitzler </Li> <Li> Erich von Manstein </Li> <Li> Heinz Guderian </Li> <Li> Heinrich Himmler </Li> <Li> Gerd von Rundstedt </Li> <Li> Ion Antonescu </Li> <Li> Benito Mussolini </Li> <Li> Miklós Horthy </Li> <Li> Ferenc Szálasi </Li> <Li> Boris III </Li> <Li> Jozef Tiso </Li> <Li> Ante Pavelić </Li> <Li> Risto Ryti </Li> </Ul> </Td> <Td> <Ul> <Li> Joseph Stalin ( commander - in - chief ) </Li> <Li> Georgy Zhukov </Li> <Li> Boris Shaposhnikov </Li> <Li> Aleksandr Vasilevsky </Li> <Li> Semyon Timoshenko </Li> <Li> Aleksei Antonov </Li> <Li> Ivan Konev </Li> <Li> Ivan Bagramyan </Li> <Li> Konstantin Rokossovsky </Li> <Li> Vasily Chuikov </Li> <Li> Nikita Khrushchev </Li> <Li> Josip Broz Tito </Li> <Li> Zygmunt Berling </Li> <Li> Ludvik Svoboda </Li> <Li> Michael I of Romania </Li> <Li> Nicolae Rădescu </Li> <Li> Kimon Georgiev </Li> <Li> C.G.E. Mannerheim </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th colspan="2"> Strength </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> 1941 3,767,000 troops </Li> <Li> 1943 3,933,000 troops </Li> <Li> 1945 1,960,000 troops </Li> </Ul> </Td> <Td> <Ul> <Li> 1941 2,680,000 troops 14,000,000 reserves ( former conscripts ) </Li> <Li> 1943 6,724,000 troops </Li> <Li> 1945 6,410,000 troops </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th colspan="2"> Casualties and losses </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> See below </Td> <Td> See below </Td> </Tr> </Table>
who won the war on the eastern front
who won the war on the eastern front
Soviet Union
Soviet Union