USA HISTORY

WORLD WAR II 1941 1945

THE START OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
´The was the site of a major battle between German and Soviet forces from July 1942 to February 1943 in which over 750, 000 Germans and nearly 500, 000 Soviets were either killed, wounded, or missing.
A
Moscow
B
Helsinki
C
Stalingrad
D
St. Petersburg
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Battle of Stalingrad, (July 17, 1942–February 2, 1943), successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd), Russia, U.S.S.R., during World War II.

Detailed explanation-2: -Operation Barbarossa (German: Unternehmen Barbarossa; Russian: , romanized: Operatsiya Barbarossa) was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during the Second World War.

Detailed explanation-3: -But the Battle of Stalingrad (one of Russia’s important industrial cities) ultimately turned the tide of World War II in favor of the Allied forces.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Battle of Stalingrad (August 1942 – February 1943) was the decisive military encounter of World War II that stopped the German southern advance and turned the tide of the war. From its victory at Stalingrad, the Red Army began a series of offensives that relentlessly took it all the way to Berlin by April 1945.

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