The Battle of Stalingrad in the History of the Second World War

The work is about the battle of Stalingrad and its role in the history of the Second World War ...

Introduction………………………………………………………………….3
1. The position of the front on the eve of the Battle of Stalingrad……..4
2. The offensive of Soviet troops………………………………………10
3. Results and significance of the Battle of Stalingrad for the Soviet people…………………………………………………………………………….17
Conclusions………………………………………………………………..21
List of referred literature and other sources……………………………….23

For a year, from November 1942 to November 1943, a radical change took place during the Great Patriotic War, when the strategic initiative passed into the hands of the Soviet command, the USSR armed forces moved from defense to a strategic offensive.
The main events of the second period of the war were: the defeat of the German troops at Stalingrad (November 19, 1942 - February 2, 1943); The Battle of Kursk (July 5 - August 23, 1943); the battle for the Dnieper (September-November 1943); liberation of the Caucasus (January-February 1943).
The turn that separated the second period of the Great Patriotic War from the first was a turning point in the course of the Battle of Stalingrad, that is, the transition from defense to the counteroffensive of the Red Army. The historic counter-offensive of Soviet troops at Stalingrad began on November 19, 1942. The troops of the Southwestern (commander N.F. Vatutin), Don (commander K.K. Rokossovsky), and Stalingrad (commander A.I. Eremenko) fronts surrounded 22 enemy divisions numbering 330 thousand people. In December, in the Middle Don, Italian-German forces were routed, trying to break through the cauldron from outside and help the encircled. At the final stage of the counteroffensive, the troops of the Don Front conducted an operation to eliminate the encircled enemy grouping. The command of the 6th German Army led by General-Field Marshal F. Paulus surrendered. During the entire period of the Battle of Stalingrad, the armies of the fascist bloc lost up to 1.5 million men, a quarter of all forces that operated on the Eastern Front. The Red Army lost more than 2 million people. The victory at Stalingrad played an important role in the radical change in the Great Patriotic War and World War II.
As the tasks of the work should be allocated the following: consideration of the main stages of the Battle of Stalingrad and determination of the results of the Battle of Stalingrad, its significance and influence on the subsequent development of events in the Second World War