HISTORY
WORLD WAR II
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Question
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Stalingrad and Midway
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Atomic Bombs and Battle of Britain
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Dunkirk and Pearl Harbor
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Appeasement and Blitzkrieg
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Detailed explanation-1: -It ended with the encirclement and annihilation of an entire German army of 250, 000 men. Stalingrad marked the turning point of the Soviet–German War, a conflict that dwarfed the 1944–45 Allied campaign in Western Europe both in numbers and ferocity.
Detailed explanation-2: -The turning point of the Battle of Stalingrad was a Soviet counteroffensive named Operation Uranus. It targeted the weak Axis forces defending the flanks of the German armies trying to take the city.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Axis powers lost about a quarter of their total manpower and never fully recovered from the defeat. The Battle of Stalingrad halted the German advance in World War II and marked the turning point of the war in Eastern Europe.
Detailed explanation-4: -Though the June 1942 Battle of Midway is often seen as the turning point of the war in the Pacific, the Solomon Islands campaign, including the Battle of Guadalcanal, was equally pivotal.