<span>The Battle of Stalingrad is considered by many historians to have been the turning point in World War Two in Europe. The battle at Stalingrad bled the German army dry in Russia and after this defeat, the Germany Army was in full retreat.</span>
The Battle of Stalingrad put an end to the advance of the German forces to the East, and was the first major setback that the German Army suffered in the second world war, the amount of soldiers needed to make that advance into the Russian territory and to fight under those conditions, as well as the supplies needed to keep them fed, desimated largely the German Forces that were also being attacked by the allies on the western front, this weakened the German forces creating the turning point in the world war II scenario.
The role that geography played in the development of Athens as a dominant power the cities states of ancient Greece was that its location along the Aegean Sea helped Athens establish a powerful Navy and booming trade.
