why did the battle of stalingrad occur? if you could give me some links to web sites to help- it would help!?
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What do you mean by why did it happen? It was part of Germany's invasion of Russia during WWII. They had to take Stalingrad to be able to have a firm grasp on the country, and the Russians didn't want that to happen, so they held out in Stalingrad.
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There were two main places communists got involved in World War II.  The first, obviously, was Russia.  They were, ironically enough, our allies in the fight against the Nazis.  The second was the underground movements in occupied countries.  Since communists were banned by the Nazis, they already had a network of secret cells and communication systems.  They were the ones, after all, who invented the Molotov Cocktail and other guerrilla fighting techniques.  And there is no denying that some of them were very brave and took terrible risks in the underground fighting.  This also clearly gave them some key positions when the war was over, and they took maximum advantage of the fact.
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there is a pseudo documentary that show what life would have been like if germany won the war. i guess that would be similare to what would have occured if we didnt  go to war to stop german agression. if you are asking what if germany didnt try to take over the world in the 1st place.. well thats just to subejective and beyond my understanding of those times.
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Think of the coldest, wettest and most miserable you have ever been.  Multiply by a hundred.  You should get a rough idea.  \n\nNapoleon took his army into Russia too close to winter and in the end, they were faced by a worse enemy than the Russian forces: Russian weather.\n\nThe troops were alway hungry, facing a tough, determined enemy and a climate that French soldiers were not even close to being ready to face.  \n\nIt was so bad that a large portion of the surviving Frenchmen went home without even boots on their feet and only socks and strips of old blankets to prevent them from losing their feet as they marched on.
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It was already decided to fight the war......how long can americans simply sit back supplying weapons to the allies and watch the war....so they decided tat it was time to show their power....also soviet union was rising in power and they had to control the spread of communism....
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If you google "Volkstrum", you'll be able ot find out more info about the battle of Berlin and how some Nazi Youth did indeed fight the Soviets to a standstill.
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Many battles were important, but three significant "turning points" stand out.  They include (1) the Battle of Britain (an air battle) which stopped Hitler's victory run; (2) the Battle of Moscow (a land battle) which halted Hitler's advance; and (3) the Battle of Midway (a naval battle, although it was fought primarily with aircraft) from which Japan never fully recovered.
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Battle of the Kalka River (May 31, 1223) was the first military engagement between the Mongol armies of Genghis Khan and the East Slavic warriors. It was fought on the bank of the Kalka River, somewhere between present-day Donetsk and Mariupol.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kalka_River
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By the time the German Army got that far, they were faced with a severe Russian winter & unprepared, they had almost no food supplies & boots that were almost falling off thier feet & causing frostbite...The Germans were in sad shape & easy to stop...The other reason is that Hitler made the single biggest error by splitting his Army & only sending half to fight Russia & the other half to take on the USA...Too small of an Army to split & take on the two biggest & most powerful countries...
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Here is a really good link that gives history and background on Memorial Day :)
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in the first part of April 1945 Essen is part of the Ruhr , the industrial area of west Germany . Around end mars the Ruhr area was completely surrounded and in 13 April the smaller part of the pocket was taken and on the 21 of April the second part of the pocket was dissolved \n Look around for the battle of the Ruhr pocket and you will find something.
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OK in order of your examples.\nNapolean lost not because the Russians learned from their mistakes but because Napolean failed to account for the Russian Winter.  The Weather is what defeated Napolean, Not the Russians.\n\nHitler Lost because he failed to study History.  The Russian Winter is what did in the German Military.  The Russians gave up land knowing that the winter was coming up.  This gave them the time to re-group and gather up needed replacements and tanks (T-34).  \n\nViet Nam - The North Vietnamese gave up a high body count in turn for time.  Knowing that the US could not and would not stand for a high body count in return.  Remember that the US Military never lost an actual battle were the NVA soldiers stood and fought.  Guerilla style fighting is designed to cause maximum body counts in a short time.  You do not stand there and go toe to toe with your enemy but rather hit them and then run.  The US lost Viet Nam not becuase they were overly cocky but becuase the US Government lost its will to fight.
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The Battle of the Bulge was a side-show compared to the epic struggles on the eastern Front, but that's another discussion.\n\nThese are just some items that come to mind re: your question:\n\n1. Full scale efforts to experiment with 'heavy water' thus leading to a nuclear device.\n\n2. Not allow the BEF to escape from Dunkirk.\n\n3. Start Operatioun Barbarossa in May of 1941 (in order to beat the Russian winter of that year.)\n\n4. Focus on one or two tank designs, eg. Panther and King Tiger, rather than dilute the resources with multiple designs.\n\n5. Give Rommel at least 4 or 5 more divisions to his Africa Corps, in order to complete the invasion of Egypt and open the middle east oil fields.\n\n6. After the invasion of Russia, allow the conquered countries into the german fold, rather than view them as sub-human.  Initially, many thought the germans were liberators against Stalin's iron rule.\n\n7. Rather than divert Panzers in the fall/winter of 1941 to encircle Kiev, keep the pressure on Moscow.\n\n8. The biggest blunder, leave Stalingrad, and use mobile forces to engage in encirclement of the Russian armies.  Urban warfare is not suited for the blitzkrieg tactics.\n\n9. Release the Panzer reserves, prior to the Normandy invasion, to Rommel, as he wanted, in order to commit them within hours of the invasion.  Instead, they were withheld by Hitler expecting an attack at Pas De Calais.\n\n10. I almost forgot, Hitler could've kept the pressure on RAF Fighter Command's airfields/radar stations in 1940-41, rather than switching to the bombing of London/Coventry and other cities.\n\njust to name a few.
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lots of events have occured. (War of independance, anything like that is usually good)\n\nis it recently or a long time ago. please specify for all who come after me
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try these. You'll find interesting things:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution_of_1917\nwww.answers.com/topic/russian-revolution-of-1917 \nhttp://www.historyhome.co.uk/europe/russia1.htm\nhttp://www.emayzine.com/lectures/russianrev.html\nhttp://www.historyhome.co.uk/europe/russia.htm\n\nyou can also try to search something through www.google.com with the key-words you need. \nbest wishes, sweet_orhideea. hope you'll succeed
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There were two great empires (the Soviet Empire & the American empire) and these empires had the ability to completely destroy each other, so they couldn't fight each other directly. But they could fight over out lying territories, and so Vietnam became te battle ground for the Americans to fight the Soviets.\n\nExcept that we weren't actually fighting the Soviets. We were fighting Vietnames people, so that explanation doesn't really make any sense. Gosh, maybe we shouldn't have been there and the whole thing was a huge mistake. Oops.
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I think it is fairly obvious that there is a battle raging and it is for the minds of humanity. I think it was Winston Churchill who said that there was a great purpose being worked out here below. All these expereinces and happenings are not just some sort of blind chance happenings. Like every thing else........time will tell.