Battle Of Stalingrad Research Paper

World War II lasted from 1939 to 1945, and was a war that included many powerful nations. These nations formed two forces known as the Allies and the Axis. Adolf Hitler of Germany was the leader of the Axis powers, and it was because of his military relationships with Japan, Italy, Finland, Hungary, and Romania that formed that Axis powers. According to the journal article, Germany and the Axis Powers: From Coalition to Collapse (2005), “[the countries are] fully independent countries that contributed to materially to the Axis war effort, particularly against the Soviet Union.” The Allies of World War II included the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, France, China, Poland, Canada, and twenty other countries. The United States …show more content…
The Battle of Stalingrad took place in July of 1942 when the Nazi Army bombed the Soviet city of Stalingrad. According to The Battle of Stalingrad, “The Battle of Stalingrad was one of the bloodiest battles in history, with combined military and civilian casualties of nearly 2 million.” This battle was seen as the turning point of the war, because of the Soviet Union victory over Nazi Germany. This battle was the first time Germany lost a fight, and this set that path towards victory for the Allies. When Hitler sent his army to take the city of Stalingrad, the namesake of the Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin, he was not prepared for the bloody battle that came. According to the Remembering Stalingrad article (2012), “[a]s the battle for the city raged and Hitler grew impatient to capture it, the Soviet Army command planned a massive operation to encircle the Germans in Stalingrad.” This battle saw the creation of one of the greatest tanks, the T-34 by the Soviet Union that was nearly indestructible, as well as the defeat of Germany’s most feared army. The Battle of Stalingrad had only 1,500 surviving civilians out of a population that was just over 500,000, making the Battle of Stalingrad the battle with the largest amount of civilian deaths. On the German side of the battle, they lost what was known as their best army, the 6th army. Germany also lost twenty divisions that …show more content…
This battle saw German U-boats creating chaos for the British shipping routes, but Germany never created a navy that could win this battle, Germany eventually left the Atlantic alone. While this battle does not seem as important in terms of accomplishments at the time, according to Ranker, “Germany, eventually gives the Atlantic to the Allies, leading to D-Day.” This quote shows that the Battle of the Atlantic led to the Invasion of Normandy, and another German defeat. The Invasion of Normandy, also known as D-Day, was called Operation Overlord and commenced on June 6, 1944. According to the textbook (2014), French, British, American, and Canadian forces landed on a sixty-mile stretch of beach in France. While there were several deaths on the side of the Allies when first reaching the beach, a million more men from the Allied forces arrived within a month, and led to Paris being taken by the Allies. D-Day is considered an important battle, because the Allies took power away form Germany, and reclaimed France from the Nazi powers. According to the D-Day article, “ the Battle of Normandy, which lasted from June 1944 to August 1944, resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control. D-Day was a gradual process of slowly moving from the beach and securing different parts of France while