How did the Soviet’s win at Stalingrad help advance the Allies’ Europe First strategy?

How did the Soviet’s win at Stalingrad help advance the Allies’ Europe First strategy?

A: It prompted several Axis countries in Eastern Europe to switch their allegiance.

B: It enabled the Soviets to push the eastern front toward Germany.

C: It consolidated Soviet power in Russia.

D: It removed the German threat on the war’s eastern front.

Answer: B: It enabled the Soviets to push the eastern front toward Germany.

Soviet victory at Stalingrad in February 1943 can be regarded as a major turning point of World War II, which positively affected the Allies’ Europe First strategy. This achievement gave the Soviet forces a new status and changed the battle from defence to offence, which would dictate the movement of the eastern front towards Germany. This loss heavily impacted the German army’s ability to continue its eastern campaign and over 800 000 Axis forces were eliminated at Stalingrad. This major loss of German force significantly rendered Hitler’s campaign impossible to implement to conquer the Soviet Union. Consequently, the Red Army managed to organize several successful counter-strikes, step by step freeing the Soviet territory and advancing to the territories of eastern European countries. This eastward pressure supplemented the force exerted on Germany by the Western Allies and thus facilitated Germany’s surrender from two fronts. The Stalingrad victory was thus of great formative significance in the totalitarian scale of things since it enabled the Allied forces to go all out on the Germans in an East-West combine.