World War 2 History?

Question

I need help on World War 2 I don't no what happen in the battle of bulge and the battle of stalingrad?

Answer 1

I had to answer this one. When I was in High School I asked my History Teacher about the Battle of the Bulge, as a family member had died there. He told me there was no such thing as the Battle of the Bulge - this was my History teacher!!!!

Battle of the Bulge

(Dec. 16, 1944 – Jan. 16, 1945) In World War II, the last German offensive on the Western Front, an unsuccessful attempt to divide the Allied forces and prevent an invasion of Germany. The "bulge" refers to the wedge that the Germans drove into the Allied lines. In December 1944, Allied forces were caught unprepared by a German counterthrust in the wooded Ardennes region of southern Belgium. The German drive, led by Gerd von Rundstedt's panzer army, was initially successful but was halted by Allied resistance and reinforcements led by George Patton. The Germans withdrew in January 1945, but both sides suffered heavy losses.


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.

Answer 2

The battle of Stalingrad occured in the years 1942 through 1944 where the Germans had been besieging the Russian city. Eventually the Russians had lured the Germans inside the city here there was house to house battles until the Germans were trapped and the Russians had decimated the 6th army before heading to Poland and the rest of Eastern Europe and eventually Germany.

The Battle of the Bulge began in the Ardennes Forest and was the first real German offensive in the west since Frederick the Great . It began in mid December 1944 and ended in late January 1945. In the early going , the Germans had the upperhand because the Allies were caught napping and a wise camouflage plan by the Nazis. The Nazis did not have much time and needed fuel supplies in a hurry and ried to cut off the British and the American forces and eventually reached the Belgian coast. The Germans, however, were caught by the Allies and the last real German offensive in WW2 came to an end.

Answer 3

The Germans pushed the Russians back in Stalingrad but got stopped at the river, the Russians started using snipers in the city and outside the city on the front line they flanked the( Italian or Romanians) line and encircled the Germans and boxed them in. This is a basic synopsis of Stalingrad however it was much more involved then this, There are really good shows of both on the history channel.

Answer 4

The Nazis fought back but lost at the battle of the bulge. Stalingrad was a long, drawn out siege, but the Russians won by attrition, crippling the German army.

Answer 5

The coldest, snowiest weather “in memory” in the Ardennes Forest on the German/Belgium border.

· Over a million men, 500,000 Germans, 600,000 Americans (more than fought at Gettysburg) and 55,000 British.

· 3 German armies, 10 corps, the equivalent of 29 divisions.

· 3 American armies, 6 corps, the equivalent of 31 divisions.

· The equivalent of 3 British divisions as well as contingents of Belgian, Canadian and French troops.

· 100,000 German casualties, killed, wounded or captured.

· 81,000 American casualties, including 23,554 captured and 19,000 killed.

· 1,400 British casualties 200 killed.

· 800 tanks lost on each side, 1,000 German aircraft.

· The Malmedy Massacre, where 86 American soldiers were murdered, was the worst atrocity committed against American troops during the course of the war in Europe.

· My division, the 106th Infantry Division, average age of 22 years, suffered 564 killed in action, 1,246 wounded and 7,001 missing in action at the end of the offensive. Most of these casualties occurred within the first three days of battle, when two of the division’s three regiments was forced to surrender.

· In it's entirety, the “Battle of the Bulge,” was the worst battles- in terms of losses - to the American Forces in WWII.

Answer 6

Good way of finding out, rent the movies - but make sure you get the German version of Stalingrad, much more true to life than any other one.

Answer 7

World War II (abbreviated WWII), or the Second World War, was a worldwide conflict which lasted from 1939 to 1945. Caused by the expansionist and hegemonic ambitions of Germany, Italy, and Japan, World War II was a confluence of two conflicts respectively started in China (the Second Sino-Japanese War), and in Poland (the Invasion of Poland). This global conflict split a majority of the world's nations into two opposing camps: the Allies and the Axis. Spanning much of the globe, World War II resulted in the deaths of over 72 million people[citation needed], making it the deadliest conflict in human history.

Not only fought between nations, World War II was the first large ideological war in history, which helps to explain why resistance and collaboration groups in occupied Europe and Asia could still operate in spite of contrary national governments and armies, or how a resistance could exist in the heart of Nazi Germany.

World War II was the most widespread war humanity has ever experienced, mobilizing over 100 million soldiers from 61 nations, with hostilities covering over 20 million km². Total war erased the distinction between civil and military resources and saw the complete mobilization of a nation's economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities for the purposes of the war effort; nearly two-thirds of those killed in the war were civilians. Massive air raids against civilian targets, initially by the Axis in Europe (Coventry, England, Rotterdam, Netherlands) and in Asia (Shanghai and Chongqing, China), then by the Allies (Tokyo, Japan, Dresden (35,000 dead) and Hamburg, Germany), took additional lives. And, for the first and so far only time, nuclear weapons were used in combat: two atomic bombs released by the United States over Japan devastated Hiroshima and, three days later, Nagasaki.

Totaling the amount of destruction is difficult, but it has certainly not been exceeded, in any single conflict, since the war's conclusion. The moral damage caused by the atrocities committed by both sides was an unquestionable blow to societal progress.

These atrocities include the deportation of entire populations (principally Jews, Slavs, and Roma), certain categories of people (for instance, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, or the disabled) but also political dissidents (for instance, Socialists, Communists or Labour Unionists) to labour, concentration, and extermination camps by the Nazis, the forced conscription of millions of East Asians living under the rule of Imperial Japan into military, labour and sexual service, the forced internment of Japanese-Americans within the U.S., and specific exactions such as the Nanking and Manila massacres. Other infamous actions include the reprisals against various uprisings, the experiments on human beings which Nazi doctors, such as SS Josef Mengele, and the Japanese Unit 731 conducted.

As a result of World War II, the United States and Soviet Union emerged as the world's two leading superpowers, dominating the world's stage for the next 40 years. The dominance of Europe faded due to the rise of Asian, Arabian, and eventually African decolonization/independence movements, which was roughly complete by the 1960s. Paradoxically, while World War II was the last, and probably worst, conflict in European history, it has led to a desire for unification in order to avoid future conflicts, which has transformed the difficult process of reconstruction into an unprecedented opportunity for prosperity.

Answer 8

World War II

World War II Timeline

http://ehistory.osu.edu/wwii/timeline.cfm

http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/ww2time.htm

This World War II 42eXplore project encompasses numerous websites.

http://www.42explore2.com/worldwar2.htm

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/WORLD%20WAR%20TWO.htm

WORLD WAR II LINKS

http://gi.grolier.com/wwii/ww2link.html

The events leading to World War II, its military operations, diplomacy, statistical data, and results, are discussed under the following headings:

http://gi.grolier.com/wwii/wwii_i.html

Principal Battles of World War II

http://ehistory.osu.edu/wwii/battles.cfm

http://www.euronet.nl/users/wilfried/ww2/ww2.htm

http://members.aol.com/TeacherNet/WWII.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/special_report/1998/10/98/world_war_i/197437.stm

http://www.archives.gov/research/ww2/photos/

Answer 9

The official US account lists 80,987 American casualties for the Bulge. Lot's of people becoming dead in wars.

Answer 10

both were very critical - and crucial
to the outcome of the War

a lot of information

best of luck