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Stalingrad
- Turning Point of the War in Europe
- Soviets stop the Germans
![]() German General-Feldmarshal Friedrich Paulus, commander of
the German Army at Stalingrad, on the right, surrenders to Soviet forces in Stalingrad on January 31, 1943 ![]() The Soviets turned back the Germans at Stalingrad in January 1943.
In mid-1943, the Soviets launched a wide advance across a broad
north-south front that drove the Germans back into Germany in April 1945.
The Allies would invade the continent first from the south.
Chronology: - British victory over the Axis in Egypt, October 23 - November 11, 1942 - Allies land in French North Africa, November 8 - 16, 1942 - Germans land in Tunisia, November 9 - 17, 1942 - Germans occupy Vichy France, November 10 - 11, 1942
Description of the North African campaign: - Following Germany's defeat of France in June 1940, the British scuttled the French Mediterranean fleet at Mers-el-Kebir to keep it from the Germans - the Italians declared war against the British and the French and launched an attack from Libya against the British in Egypt, but the British pushed them back into Tunisia; - the Germans came to the aid of the Italians and pushed the British back into Egypt, but they were eventually stopped in Egypt at El-Alamein, and then forced back into Tunisia. - As the British pushed the Germans back into Tunisia in 1942, the Americans disembarked in North Africa, with landings in Morocco and Algeria; - the Allies then defeated the Axis in Tunisia, 1943
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