Battle of Stalingrad
1942–1943 · Event
Five-month battle for the Volga city; entire German Sixth Army surrenders; turning point of the war in Europe.
On these timelines: Stalingrad, Master, Russia & the USSR, Germany, World War II
More from Stalingrad
- Surrender at Stalingrad (1943)
- Operation Uranus (1942)
- Rattenkrieg: the fight for the ruins (1942)
- The Luftwaffe burns Stalingrad (1942)
- Order No. 227: not one step back (1942)
- Winter Storm fails to reach the pocket (1942)
- Case Blue: the drive for the Caucasus (1942)
Around 1942
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Korean War (1950)
- Apartheid (1948)
- World War II (1939)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Manhattan Project (1942)