Red Army

Examples of Red Army in the following topics:

• The Collapse of Nazi Germany

  • Starting on January 12, 1945, the Red Army began the Vistula–Oder Offensive across the Narew River; and, from Warsaw, a three-day operation on a broad front, which incorporated four army Fronts. 
  • On the fourth day, the Red Army broke out and started moving west, up to 30 to 40 km (19 to 25 mi) per day, taking East Prussia, Danzig, and Poznań, drawing up on a line 60 km (37 mi) east of Berlin along the Oder River.
  • Following the Vistula–Oder Offensive of January–February 1945, the Red Army had temporarily halted on a line 60 km (37 mi) east of Berlin.
  • Before the main battle in Berlin commenced, the Red Army encircled the city after successful battles of the Seelow Heights and Halbe.
  • Within the next few days, the Red Army reached the city center where close-quarters combat raged.

• The Battle of Stalingrad

  • The German offensive to capture Stalingrad began in late summer 1942, using the German 6th Army and elements of the 4th Panzer Army.
  • On 19 November 1942, the Red Army launched Operation Uranus, a two-pronged attack targeting the weaker Romanian and Hungarian forces protecting the German 6th Army's flanks.
  • Hitler was confident that he could master the Red Army after the winter of 1942, because even though Army Group Centre had suffered heavy losses west of Moscow the previous winter, 65% of Army Group Centre's infantry had not been engaged and had been rested and re-equipped.
  • Neither Army Group North nor Army Group South had been particularly hard pressed over the winter.
  • The Red Army had the initiative, and the Wehrmacht was in retreat.

• The Allied Push to Berlin

  • German Army Group Centre resisted in Prague until 11 May.
  • Following the Vistula–Oder Offensive of January–February 1945, the Red Army had temporarily halted on a line 37 miles east of Berlin.
  • Before the main battle in Berlin commenced, the Red Army encircled the city after successful battles of the Seelow Heights and Halbe.
  • Within the next few days, the Red Army reached the city centre where close-quarters combat raged.
  • The BBC's Richard Dimbleby described the scenes that greeted him and the British Army at Belsen:

• The North African Front

  • In addition, as Joseph Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union, had long been demanding a second front be opened to engage the Wehrmacht and relieve pressure on the Red Army, it provided some degree of relief for the Red Army on the Eastern Front by diverting Axis forces to the African theatre, tying them up and destroying them there.
  • The Italians halted to bring up supplies and Operation Compass, a British five-day raid in December 1940, led to the destruction of the Italian 10th Army.
  • By the beginning of March, the British Eighth Army—advancing westward along the North African coast—had reached the Tunisian border.
  • The British Eighth Army bypassed the Axis defence on the Mareth Line in late March and First Army in central Tunisia launched their main offensive in mid-April to squeeze the Axis forces until their resistance in Africa collapsed.
  • The last Axis force to surrender in North Africa was the 1st Italian Army.

• The Allied Drive Toward Berlin

  • In the Allied 6th Army Group area, the US Seventh Army assaulted across the Rhine in the area between Mannheim and Worms on March 26.
  • In the south, while Third Army headed east, the First Army headed northeast and formed the southern pincer of the Ruhr envelopment.
  • Ninth Army (assigned to Montgomery's British 21st Army Group) headed southeast forming the northern pincer, while the rest of 21st Army Group went east and northeast.
  • Generals Eisenhower (the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force on the Western Front) and Bradley concluded that pushing beyond the Elbe made no sense since eastern Germany was destined in any case to be occupied by the Red Army.
  • Army Group made its eastward thrust, General Devers′ 6th U.S.

• Colonial Armed Forces

  • Soldiers in the Continental Army were unpaid volunteers and enlistment periods varied from one to three years.
  • These soldiers would have been a part of the Continental Army rather than militiamen.
  • Blue-coated militiamen in the foreground flee from the volley of gunshots from the red-coated British Army line in the background.
  • These American militias were an important supplement to the Continental Army.
  • Portrait of General George Washington, who was appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army on June 15, 1775.

• Red Scare

  • Postwar patriotism and fears of communism after the Russian Revolution produced the Red Scare in the U.S. in 1919-1920.
  • When the Provisional Government chose to continue fighting World War I despite the Russian Army suffering huge losses, the Bolsheviks demanded an immediate end to the war and won over the common people.
  • Army machine gunner holding off hordes of Reds and Wobblies (Industrial Workers of the World party members).
  • A Red Scare depiction of a "European Anarchist" attempting to destroy the Statue of Liberty.
  • Describe how the Red Scare contributed to anti-labor sentiment, the Palmer Raids, and the Sedition Act of 1918.

• Sculpture of the Qin Dynasty

  • The Qin Dynasty is perhaps best known for the impressive Terracotta Army built to protect Qin Shihuang in the afterlife.
  • The most famous example of sculpture under the Qin Dynasty was a project commissioned during Qin Shihuang's rule known as the Terracotta Army, intended to protect the emperor after his death.
  • The Terracotta Army was inconspicuous due to its underground location and was not discovered until 1974.
  • The figures were painted in bright pigments before being placed into the vault, and the original colors of pink, red, green, blue, black, brown, white, and lilac were visible when the pieces were first unearthed.
  • The Terracotta Army consists of more than 7,000 life-size tomb terracotta figures of warriors and horses, buried with the first Emperor of Qin in 210 BCE.

• Mobilization and the Development of the West

  • The Army established the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) in 1942, which served overseas in North Africa.
  • The WAAC was converted to the Women's Army Corps (WAC) in 1943 and recognized as an official part of the regular Army.
  • Army interface with our Chinese allies.
  • In 1943, the Women's Army Corps recruited a unit of Chinese-American women to serve with the Army Air Forces as "Air WACs. " The first two women to enlist in the unit were Hazel (Toy) Nakashima and Jit Wong.
  • U.S. women also performed many kinds of non-military service in organizations such as the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), American Red Cross, and the United Service Organizations (USO).

• Changing Roles for Women

  • The Army established the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) in 1942, later converted to the Women's Army Corps (WAC) in 1943, and recognized as an official part of the regular army.
  • Over 60 thousand Army nurses (all military nurses were female then) served stateside and overseas during World War II.
  • One Army flight nurse was aboard an aircraft that was shot down behind enemy lines in Germany in 1944.
  • Margaret Craighill became the first female doctor to become a commissioned officer in the United States Army Medical Corps.
  • U.S. women also performed many kinds of non-military service in organizations such as the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), American Red Cross, and the United Service Organizations (USO).