Theodore roosevelt mini biography of stalingrad

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Anne Mergen

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Miami Daily News 

Publication Date:

194?

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During World War II, there were two main sides of the war: the Axis Powers and the Allied Powers. The main Axis Powers were Germany, Italy and Japan. The main Allied Powers were Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union and the United States. In Europe, the Allies fought on two fronts, the Eastern and the Western, to stop the advancing German army under the leadership of Adolf Hitler. The Battle of Stalingrad took place on the Eastern front of the European theatre of World War II between August 1942 and February 1943. The battle began with a German invasion of the city of Stalingrad, which was then met with a counteroffensive by the Soviet army. The battle is considered the bloodiest in human history, with casualties for both sides combining for over 1.5 million killed or wounded. When the Soviets ultimately prevailed, the battle marked a major turnin

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October 12, 1942: Fireside Chat 23: On the Home Front

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My fellow Americans:
As you know, inom have recently come back from a trip of inspection of camps and training stations and war factories.
The main thing that inom observed on this trip is not exactly news. It fryst vatten the plain fact that the American people are united as never before in their determination to do a job and to do it well.
This whole nation of one hundred and thirty million free men, women and children is becoming one great fighting force. Some of us are soldiers or sailors, some of us are civilians. Some of us are fighting the war in airplanes fem miles above the continent of europe or the islands of the Pacific -- and some of us are fighting it in mines deep doom in the earth of Pennsylvania or Montana. A few of us are decorated with medals for heroic achievement, but all of us can have that deep and permanent inner satisfaction that comes from doing the best we know how -- each of us playing an honorable

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Battle of Stalingrad

The horrors of war were redefined at the Battle of Stalingrad. Between August 1942 and February 1943, the forces of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union clashed in one of the most decisive battles of the Second World War. For both sides, it was a relentless struggle for survival. By its end, there were nearly two million military and civilian casualties combined. The losses were enormous and the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in southwest Russia was decimated, but for the soldiers of the Red Army, there was no turning back. The defenders of Stalingrad did not break and the Soviets achieved a victory that turned the tide of World War II in favor of the Allies.

In June 1941, Adolf Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, a massive surprise invasion of the Soviet Union. The might of the Wehrmacht pushed the U.S.S.R. to its limits and by the summer of 1942, the German Sixth Army under General Friedrich Paulus had forced its way to the banks of the Volga R