The Battle of Stalingrad is considered a turning point in World War II because at this battle the Soviets began to push westward toward Germany.
The Battle of Stalingrad was a battle between the Red Army of the Soviet Union and the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany and its allies of the Axis for the control of the Soviet city of Stalingrad, present Volgograd, between August 23, 1942 and 2 February 1943. The battle took place in the course of the German invasion of the Soviet Union, in the framework of the Second World War. With estimated casualties in more than two million people between soldiers of both sides and Soviet civilians, the Battle of Stalingrad is considered the bloodiest battle in the history of mankind. The serious defeat of Nazi Germany and its allies in this city meant a key and severe turning point in the final results of the war and represents the beginning of the end of Nazism in Europe, because the Wehrmacht would never recover its previous strength nor would get more strategic victories on the Eastern Front.
