What is the turning points against the axis in world war 2?

Answer 1

Ultimately, Stalingrad and D-Day in Europe and Midway and Hiroshima in the Pacific (though there were many others). All of Southern Russia, including the oil fields, was in danger of falling to the Nazis. Western Russia was already in Nazi control and it looked like Hitler was on his way to complete and total victory. However, instead of attacking the oil fields with his entire force, as was previously planned by his warlords, Hitler diverted half of his army away toward the city of Stalingrad to claim the city and humiliate his rival, Soviet Premiere, Josef Stalin. After months of insane, apocalyptic, bitter and intense street-fighting in the bombed out ruins of Stalingrad, the "invincible" German army was defeated for the first time and the Russians captured an entire German army division. The Red Army suffered some of their worst casualties of the entire war in that city (which was rebuilt after the war and is now called Volgograd) but continued to fight and defend their homeland, in spite of the horrific price they had to pay. Upon their hard earned victory, the Red Army launched a massive counter attack that would eventually lead to Nazi surrender and the death of Adolf Hitler. The D-Day invasion signaled the end of Nazi rule in Western Europe. American, British, Free French, Canadian, Australian and other Allies stormed the beaches of Northern France and overwhelmed the formidable defenses of Hitler's "Atlantic Wall". At a tremendous cost of some of the best and brightest young lives, the Allies established a beachhead in Normandy and eventually liberated Paris. From there they advanced on the Low Countries and eventually the "Fatherland" of Nazi Germany itself, which put an end to the war in Europe. The Battle of Midway was a turning point in the war against the Japanese. Midway island would've given the Japanese control of virtually all of the Pacific and the American victory there, in turn, gave us a figurative stepping stone that we used to retake island after island, one-by-one. Significant damage to the Japanese fleet was inflicted and most of the damage to American ships was repaired. When the Americans dropped the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, and a day later, Nagasaki, it signaled the end of hostilities in WWII and ended the war. Dropping the bomb(s) coerced the Japanese into unconditional surrender and saved America from a costly invasion that military analysts believed would've cost us well over a million men to achieve and maintain.