User:Harley Saunders and Brodie Tuck

War and Society 30 pts task
 1. 3points Sound: what did life in the trenches sound like?

 2. 3points Mood: what was the mood like living in the trenches?

 3. 4points Background: what was going on while the main battle was being fought?

 4. 4points Perspective: what would have been the perspective been like on either side of the army leaders (Hitler and Stalin)

 5. 2points Numbers: what where the army sizes for each leader?

 6. 3points when: did the battle take place and for how long?

 7. 2points where: where were the leaders of the armies at the time of the battle?

 8. 3points mood: what was the mood like on either side after the battle and how did each leader react?

 9. 1point what: what was the outcome of the battle of Stalingrad?

 10. 4points background: how important was this battle in the grand scheme of things in ww2?

 11. 1point what: what was the reason for attacking/defending Stalingrad?



 THE ANSWERS.

 1.         Life in the trenches at Stalingrad sounded like much the same as everywhere else in the trenches in ww2, the boom of artillery shells and the ringing of gun shots. The main difference was that Stalingrad during the conflict the temperature dropped dramatically.

 2.<span style="font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">         The mood in the trenches was a gloomy, deeply sad and depressed outlook, the food was terrible the trenches were cold, wet and muddy, overall it was a horrible place to be and the mood reflected that.

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"> 3.<span style="font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">         They were many battles and land grabs still being fought while the battle of Stalingrad was being fought one was the allies push into north west Africa and gradually closing in on the Germans, also the British and American forces invaded Sicily and by the  3rd of September 1943 Italy had surrendered.

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"> 4.<span style="font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">          The perspectives of the two leaders at the battle of Stalingrad where not to dissimilar one the one hand they was Adolf Hitler and one the other was Joseph Stalin, at one stage the Germans were in a position to be counter attacked and the commander, who had a choice to escape and pull back, was forbidden to do so from Hitler. And there was Stalin who mostly chose to save Stalingrad was because of the name and it would have been a massive hit to the Russian moral if they had lost the city.

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"> 5.<span style="font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">         The army size for each leader was roughly the same with a few different numbers but the numbers would speak for themselves as they were huge.

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"> 6.<span style="font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">         The battle took place from July 17th 1942 to February 2nd 1943. And the initial fighting in the city lasted 7 ½ months. Until the Germans 6th army was surrounded and the army was either killed or captured.

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"> 7.<span style="font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">         While Adolf Hitler was in berlin, Joseph Stalin was in Moscow. Both dictators were nowhere the epicentre of the fierce battle that would end up claiming many lives that could have been avoided.

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"> 8.<span style="font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">         The mood after the battle of Stalingrad was mixed at best, The Russians were as you could imagine were extremely happy to have defended, repelled and destroyed the Germans 6th army. The Germans however were crushed at the defeat and the general who was at the battle of Stalingrad, Paulus as he was the one who surrounded the remaining army to the Russians, was then stripped of his rank by Hitler, and in a fit of fury Hitler ordered a day of mourning but not to remember the troops who died but for the shame that Paulus had brought to the Wehrmacht and to Germany.

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"> 9.<span style="font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">         The outcome of the battle of Stalingrad was that the Russians prevailed and defended Stalingrad from the German 6th army.

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"> 10.<span style="font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">     This battle was one of the most important battles in World War 2 because with all of the losses suffered and the moral that was near destroyed the Germans could not be able to cope with Russian armies advance onto Germany.

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"> 11.<span style="font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">     The Germans attacked Stalingrad because The German army group A and B they were advancing onward through Russia when Hitler ordered a attack on Stalingrad because, from a strategic view it would have been unwise to leave a un conquered major city in you rear as you advanced, but some people think that he tried to take Stalingrad just because of the name and because of his hatred of Stalin, like wise Stalin had to keep Stalingrad because the moral damage that would have been done would have effected every Russian citizen and soldier.