USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The turning point of the Battle of Stalingrad was a Soviet counteroffensive named Operation Uranus.

Detailed explanation-2: -The tide of the war in Europe shifted with the Soviet victory at the Battle of Stalingrad (February 1943).

Detailed explanation-3: -Then, late that summer, the Nazi leader attacked Stalingrad. That decision led to Germany’s first major Eastern Front defeat and became the turning point of World War II. “If you look at the whole operation, the Soviets essentially wiped out the German Sixth Army and a Panzer army…

Detailed explanation-4: -In February 1943, after months of fierce fighting and heavy casualties, the surviving German forces-only about 91, 000 soldiers-surrendered. After the victory at Stalingrad, the Soviet army remained on the offensive, liberating most of the Ukraine, and virtually all of Russia and eastern Belorussia during 1943.