Who won the battle for stalingrad during world war ii?
japan
germany
the soviet union
the united states

The Battle of Stalingrad was won by the Soviet Union.

The Battle of Stalingrad was a major combat in the Second World War between the summer of 1942 and 2 February 1943, that opposed the soldiers of the Soviet Red Army to the German, Italian, Romanian and Hungarian forces for the control of the strategic region between the Don and the Volga and the important political and economic center of Stalingrad (today Volgograd), on the eastern front.

The battle, which began with the advance of the Axis troops up to the Don and the Volga, ended, after a series of dramatic and bloody phases, with the annihilation of the 6th German Army and with the destruction of part of the other Germanic and Axis forces engaged in the strategic southern area of ​​the eastern front.

This gigantic battle, defined by some historians as "the most important of all the Second World War", marked the first great political-military defeat of Nazi Germany and its allies, as well as the beginning of the Soviet advance towards west that would end two years later with the conquest of the Reichstag building and the suicide of Hitler in the Chancellery bunker during the Battle of Berlin.

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