The six-month battle in World War II ended German hopes to the Soviet Union.
World War II Before Stalingrad
Adolf vHitler,who became chancellor of Germany in 1933, dreamed of creating a German empire in Europe. He hoped, in the process,to rid this empire of comm -unists and Jews, groups he despised. He knew that he could meet his goals only by fighting. But if France, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union joined together, Germany would have to fight on two fronts.
The early war to solve his problem, Hitler made an alliance with the dictator of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin. Then, in 1939, Hitler launched World War II by in- vading Poland. His army quickly con- quered the country. The next year he turned west and soon took Belgium, the Netherlands, and France. Germany's defeat in the battle of Britain spared the island from invasion. Deciding to ignore Britain for a while-as well as his alliance with Stalin-Hitler took aim at the Soviet Union.
The Invasion of the Soviet Union
The Germans invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941. They attacked with 153 divisions-three-quarters of their army. German allies Romania, Finland, Hungary, and Italy supplied 30 more divisions. The initial advance on three fronts toward Leningrad in the north, Moscow in the center, and Rostov in the south made stunning progress. German tanks and soldiers smashed through Soviet lines. Hundreds of thousands of the Soviet Union's Red Army soldiers were killed or surrendered.
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