why was the Battle for Stalingrad, Russia considered the turning point of WWII?

Answer 1

the battle of Stalingrad is considered the turning point of WWII because the Russian armies were able to stop the German eastern front from continuing into Russia. The German goal was the oil Fields and the Volga river which supplied the Russians with resources. the out come of this battle was 2 million people dead, 1/4 of the German eastern front destroyed and a Russian push to Berlin was able to happen. The Russian push eventually led to the battle of Berlin. the battle is consider the bloodiest battle in human history.

Answer 2

To me, Stalingrad is the greatest battle of the war. What would the Soviets really have lost by losing Stalingrad? Prestige? The war wouldn't have been over for them. They still had thousands of miles into which to retreat and conduct partisan operations, etc.

Besides, in the unlikely even that the Soviets were to have lost Stalingrad, the US was developing the atomic bomb to drop on Germany (not Japan), developing B-29 and B-36 bombers to be able to bomb Germany directly from the US, etc.

No, Stalingrad was only important if the Germans were to have lost - which they did. From Stalingrad on, the Soviets knew they had a chance, and the Germans knew they could be defeated and even destroyed. The psychological tables had turned.

I think that Stalingrad is much more important than other battles because it is the most important battle on the most important front of the war. Just remember, the Soviets killed about 80% of all of the Germans who were killed in the war. It was in Russia that Germany was defeated.

Answer 3

The Battle of Stalingrad was considered the turning point of World War II because the German Army's advance into the Soviet Union was broken there.

The Soviet victory at Stalingrad was the largest defeat in the history of the German Army, and over 1 million German, Italian, Hungarian and Romanian troops were either killed, wounded, missing or taken prisoner during the course of the battle.

Also, for the first time in German military history, a Field Marshal surrendered to an enemy army.

After Stalingrad, the German Army was in full retreat.

Answer 4

Because they succeeded for the first time to stop the German army.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad

1942–43) Unsuccessful German assault on the Soviet city in World War II. German forces invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 and had advanced to the suburbs of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) by the summer of 1942. Met by a determined Red Army defense commanded by Vasily Chuikov, they reached the city's centre after fierce street fighting. In November the Soviets counterattacked and encircled the German army led by Friedrich Paulus, who surrendered in February 1943 with 91,000 troops. The Axis forces (Germans, Romanians, Italians, and Hungarians) suffered 800,000 deaths; in excess of 1,000,000 Soviet soldiers died. The battle marked the farthest extent of the German advance into the Soviet Union.

http://www.answers.com/topic/battle-of-stalingrad

Answer 5

The Germans never had another major victory after the Battle of Stanlingrad, and likewise it was the Soviets first, Germany lost an entire army trapped in Stalingrad thanks to Hitlers incompetence, after Stalingrad they lacked the Power to launch another effective offensive, though this didnt stop them from trying.

Answer 6

The warfare change into already coming to an end for Hitler in Europe before Hitler declaired warfare on the US and the US were given in contact. The Russian iciness further Blitzkreig contained in the Soviet union to a stand nonetheless. The Russian iciness iced over thousands of tanks, plane and infantrymen. ninety% of Nazi casulties change into contained in the eatern the front scuffling with the Soviets.

Answer 7

Because it was a major city on a river that the Nazis needed to take, and the Russians beat them back - and kept beating them back all the way to Germany. It broke the backs of the Germans in Eastern Europe.

Answer 8

THe Germans were not able to move farthen then that and started to retreat after they lost one of the bloodies battles of the war.