What were the major turning points of WWII?

Question

World History

Answer 1

Battle of the Bulge.

Answer 2

1. The Battle of Britian. Hitler could have destroied the British air defences and communication, but instead focused his efforts to bomb London, thus allowing the RAF to fight back and effictavly hold off the German attackers from gaining air superiority, saving Britian from an Invasion. Because Britain held out, it was used as a staging point by the US and UK to plan their invasion of Europe, which began on D-Day (probably the third biggest turning point). If Britain had lost the battle, and they very well could have, they were heavly outnumbered, the US would have had to take on Germany alone and try to stage an invasion all the way from accross the Alantic, a feat that probably would have been impossible, or at least very, very hard. Also German forces could have been diverted away from the west to the Eastern Front and that would certainly have been way too much for the USSR to handle.
2. The Battle of Stalingrad. Hitler again makes a stupid call. German forces are instructed to turn from their target of Moscow to instead take a major industrial city in southern Russia, Stalingrad. German and Soviet troops fought for days in the narrow corners of the bombed city (a very good level in Call of Duty 2) until the Soviet's overwhelming number of forces finaly won the battle for them. This allowed the German advance to be halted and the Soviets to take the offensive. If the Soviets had lost they would have lost a major manufacturing city, and there would have been no stopping the Germans from marching straight onto Moscow and beyond. The collapse of the Eastern Front would have also alowed the Germans to focus their strength on the West, assuming they still lost the Battle of Britain. If the won both battles the excess forces could have marched into the middle east, taking the oil there, or even prepared for an attack on America.

Answer 3

Battle of Britain - Stopped hitler's Invasion of Britain
Battle of Midway - turned the tide in the Pacific front
Operations Overlord and Market Garden - Made victory in western Europe as sure thing

Answer 4

Daylight bombing escorted by P51 fighters,Rommel's defeat by Montgomery and Patton in Africa,the invasion of Sicily.the Battle of the Bismark Sea, Midway,and D-day, June 6, 1944.

Answer 5

The one I studied from a non-historical stand point was Alan Turing and his 'Ultra' colleagues at Bletchley park cracking the Enigma code.

This had a huge impact on the way we fought the war from then on. The Germans were so cocky and confident that their codes were secure, we amassed incredible amounts of information about troop movements etc.

I always quote this one, as the story of Alan Turing from then on was such a sad one. I almost feel obliged to let people know.

(He took his own life before anyone outside of Ultra and the government knew of his genius and his massive contribution to the war - see below for details)

Answer 6

The battle of Midway was the turning point in the pacific ocean.

Answer 7

The begining of the end.