After negotiations Communication broke down Process_end in 1904 , the Japanese Navy opened Process_start hostilities by attacking Attack the Russian Eastern Fleet at Port Arthur , China , in a surprise attack Attack .

The pact and its secret protocols divided Creating Eastern Europe into spheres of influence and led to Causation the occupation Control of the Baltic states in 1940 .

It took place Process_start on the Eastern Front of World War II and was part of the wider Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive , a Soviet attack Attack against Army Group South to retake Conquering the rest of Ukraine that fell Motion_directional to Germany in 1941 .

On 17 September , the Soviet Red Army invaded Attack Eastern Poland , the territory beyond the so-called Curzon Line that fell into the Soviet `` sphere of influence '' according to the secret protocol of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact ; this rendered Supply the Polish plan of defence Defending obsolete .

The Turkish War of Independence ( `` War of Liberation '' , also known figuratively as `` İstiklâl Harbi '' `` Independence War '' or `` Millî Mücadele '' `` National Campaign '' ; 19 May 1919 – 24 July 1923 ) was fought Hostile_encounter between the Turkish National Movement and the proxies of the Allies – namely Greece on the Western Front , Armenia on the Eastern , France on the Southern , the royalists and the separatists in various cities , and with them , the United Kingdom and Italy in Constantinople ( now Istanbul ) – after parts of the Ottoman Empire were occupied and partitioned following the Ottomans ' defeat Conquering in World War I .

On 30 October 1918 , the Armistice of Mudros was signed Sign_agreement between the Ottoman Empire and the Allies of World War I , bringing hostilities in the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I to a close .

On 14 November , joint Collaboration Franco-Greek troops occupied Control the town of Uzunköprü in Eastern Thrace as well as the railway axis till the train station of Hadımköy near Çatalca on the outskirts of Constantinople .

The Campaign against Dong Zhuo was a punitive expedition initiated Process_start by a coalition of regional officials and warlords against the warlord Dong Zhuo in 190 in the late Eastern Han dynasty .

The Eastern Front of World War II was a theatre of conflict Hostile_encounter between the European Axis powers and co-belligerent Finland against the Soviet Union ( USSR ) , Poland and other Allies , which encompassed Surrounding Central Europe , Eastern Europe , Northeast Europe ( Baltics ) , and Southeast Europe ( Balkans ) from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945 .

The Eastern Front of World War II was a theatre of conflict Hostile_encounter between the European Axis powers and co-belligerent Finland against the Soviet Union ( USSR ) , Poland and other Allies , which encompassed Surrounding Central Europe , Eastern Europe , Northeast Europe ( Baltics ) , and Southeast Europe ( Balkans ) from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945 .

It has been known as the Great Patriotic War ( , '' Velikaya Otechestvennaya Voyna '' ) in the former Soviet Union and modern Russia , while in Germany it was called Name_conferral the Eastern Front ( ) , or the German-Soviet War by outside parties .

The battles Hostile_encounter on the Eastern Front of the Second World War constituted the largest military confrontation in history .

The Eastern Front , as the site of nearly all extermination camps , death Death marches , ghettos , and the majority of pogroms , was central to the Holocaust .

Of the estimated 70–85 million deaths attributed Causation to World War II around 30 million occurred Presence on the Eastern Front .

The Eastern Front was decisive in determining Deciding the outcome in the European theatre of operations in World War II , eventually serving Supply as the main reason for the defeat Conquering of Nazi Germany and the Axis nations .

The joint German–Finnish operations across the northernmost Finnish–Soviet border and in the Murmansk region are considered Statement part of the Eastern Front .

In addition , the Soviet–Finnish Continuation War may also be considered Statement the northern flank of the Eastern Front .

These rapid advances on the Eastern Front destroyed Destroying additional veteran German combat units and severely limited Limiting German Führer Adolf Hitler 's ability to reinforce his Rhine defenses .

Part of the Maryland Campaign Military_operation , it was the first field army–level engagement Hostile_encounter in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War to take place Process_start on Union soil .

The operation opened Openness up the Eastern Front , in which more forces were committed Commitment than in any other theater of war in world history .

The Eastern Front became Becoming the site of some of the largest battles , most horrific atrocities , and highest World War II casualties ( for Soviet and Axis forces alike ) .

The Wehrmacht never again mounted Military_operation a simultaneous offensive along the entire Eastern Front .

The occupation of Lovas and the killing Killing and expulsion of its civilian population was included Cause_to_be_included in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ( ICTY ) indictments of the President of Serbia , Slobodan Milošević , and Goran Hadžić , a high-ranking official of the Croatian Serb-declared wartime breakaway region of SAO Eastern Slavonia , Baranja and Western Syrmia .

The Vandalic or Vandal War ( , `` Vandēlikòs Pólemos '' ) was a conflict fought Hostile_encounter in North Africa ( largely in modern Tunisia ) between the forces of the Eastern Roman or Byzantine Empire and the Vandalic Kingdom of Carthage , in 533–534 .

After Geiseric 's death , relations with the surviving Eastern Roman Empire normalized , although tensions flared Lighting up occasionally due to the Vandals ' militant adherence to Arianism and their persecution of the Chalcedonian native population .

The Eastern Roman emperor Justinian took this as a pretext to interfere Hindering in Vandal affairs , and after he secured Preventing_or_letting his eastern frontier with Sassanid Persia in 532 , he began Process_start preparing GetReady an expedition under general Belisarius , whose secretary Procopius wrote Writing the main historical narrative of the war .

The Yellow Turban Rebellion , also translated as the Yellow Scarves Rebellion , was a peasant revolt Change_of_leadership in China against the Eastern Han dynasty .

The Syrian Ba'athist government granted Giving the UN 's request Request on 25 August , and inspectors visited Traveling and investigated Research Moadamiyah in Western Ghouta the next day and Zamalka and Ein Tarma in Eastern Ghouta on 28 and 29 August .

In an historical rarity , Protestant and Eastern Orthodox leaders , as well as representatives and heads from Judaism , Islam and Buddhism , offered Giving their own memorials and prayers Rite as a way of sympathising with the grief of Catholics .

On the Eastern Front , the Brusilov Offensive had inflicted Causation huge losses Earnings_and_losses on the Austro-Hungarian armies in Russia and forced the Germans to take over more of the front .

The remaining United Nations Transitional Authority for Eastern Slavonia , Baranja and Western Sirmium ( UNTAES ) zone was peacefully reintegrated Becoming_a_member into Croatia by 1998 .

After an unsuccessful Byzantine attempt to murder Killing him ruined Destroying all prospects for negotiations with them , Krum ravaged Destroying much of Eastern Thrace and then turned Change against Adrianople which was still under siege Besieging .

As the Byzantine-Bulgarian relations deteriorated Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale by the end of the 960s , the Eastern Roman Empire paid Commerce_pay the Kievan prince Sviatoslav to attack Attack Bulgaria .

The unexpected collapse Destroying of Bulgaria and Sviatoslav 's ambitions to seize Conquering Constantinople caught Self_motion the Eastern Roman Empire off-guard but they managed to pull Motion back the Kievan armies and occupied Control eastern Bulgaria including the capital Preslav in 971 .

Emperor Boris II was captured Conquering and taken Bringing to Constantinople where he abdicated Change_of_leadership and the Byzantine Emperor John I Tzimiskes announced Expressing_publicly the annexation Change_of_leadership of Bulgaria , even though the Eastern Roman Empire only controlled Control Eastern Bulgaria at the time , but the lands to the west remained under Bulgarian control Control .

Emperor Boris II was captured Conquering and taken Bringing to Constantinople where he abdicated Change_of_leadership and the Byzantine Emperor John I Tzimiskes announced Expressing_publicly the annexation Change_of_leadership of Bulgaria , even though the Eastern Roman Empire only controlled Control Eastern Bulgaria at the time , but the lands to the west remained under Bulgarian control Control .

This was followed Motion by the Sahara Race Competition in the Sahara Desert of Egypt ( Eastern Desert ) in 2005 .

Islamists launched Attack a new offensive Defending on 16 June , lasting until 23 June , entering Arriving government strongholds in Eastern Mogadishu for the first time , the offensive was relatively successful and saw most neighbourhoods in Kaaraan , Shibis , Abdiaziz and Wardhigley fall to their control Control .

Islamists however returned Arriving on 13 July , with large re-enforcements from the South Eastern Region , government forces Causation withdrew Escaping from all captured Conquering positions and minor clashes Hostile_encounter continued Process_start .

Together with earlier damage suffered Bodily_harm in the 1939 invasion Attack of Poland and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 , over 85 % of the city was destroyed Destroying by January 1945 when the course of the events in the Eastern Front forced the Germans to abandon GiveUp the city .

The `` Eastern Theater of Eelam War IV '' , the warfare Hostile_encounter started Process_start in the Eastern province of Sri Lanka on July 21 , 2006 , when the LTTE cut off Having_or_lacking_access the water supply to the rice fields in the Mavil aru area in the eastern Trincomalee district .

The `` Eastern Theater of Eelam War IV '' , the warfare Hostile_encounter started Process_start in the Eastern province of Sri Lanka on July 21 , 2006 , when the LTTE cut off Having_or_lacking_access the water supply to the rice fields in the Mavil aru area in the eastern Trincomalee district .

The government military claimed Statement the total control Control of the Eastern province after capturing Conquering the Thoppigala ( Baron 's cap ) on July 11 , 2007 after nearly a year of fighting Hostile_encounter .

The world health organization ( WHO ) estimated ~200,300 IDPs , and claims Statement that significant progress Cause_to_make_progress has occurred Presence in resettling Hold them The LTTE has vowed Commitment to attack Attack Sri Lanka 's military and economic targets across the country to retaliate Revenge the capture Conquering of the Eastern province from them .

The Sydney show was marked Recording by constant rain Bodily_harm throughout the day that transformed Change the venue , Eastern Creek Raceway , into a mudbowl and several bands were pelted Connect with mud by the audience .

As a result , the Ottomans annexed Eastern Anatolia and northern Iraq from Safavid Iran .

It marked the first Ottoman expansion Expansion into Eastern Anatolia ( Western Armenia ) , and the halt Process_end of the Safavid expansion Expansion to the west .

The race Competition was scheduled to start Process_start at 6:18 pm Eastern Daylight Time ( EDT ) on May 17 , 2014 at Pimlico Race Course and was run Control as the twelfth race Competition on a racecard with thirteen races .

Konsert Lentera Timur ( Malaysian for the Eastern Beacon Concert Social_event ; also known as Konsert Lentera Timur Dato ’ Siti Nurhaliza ) was a concert Social_event residency by Malaysian recording Recording artist , Siti Nurhaliza .

These Soviet actions , while strengthening Cause_change_of_strength control over the Eastern Bloc , alienated Influence many Western Marxists , leading to Causation splits and/or considerable losses Earnings_and_losses of membership for communist parties in capitalist states .