Operation Barbarossa

It was on June 22, 1941 that Adolf Hitler discharged "Operation Barbarossa", which broke the non-agression pact that was signed on 1939 between Hitler and Joseph Stalin. Hitler yearned for a new German Empire for the longest time and as a result, he wanted nothing more than to quell the Soviet Union in hopes of having the potency to attain raw materials, agricultural land, and labour for the German army. Just as how the U.S. were unprepared for the attack by the Japanese of Pearl Harbour, the Soviet Unions were the same in this particular situation. Soviet winters were extremely cold and in contrast, Germans weren't fully and properly equipped. Therefore they lost their advantage. Since that was a failure, in 1942, Germany casted another aggressive in the Soviet Union. Now, they were focusing more on the south which laid the rich oil fields. Although the Germans made it as far as Stalingrad, they were put to a standstill due to another uncompromising winter. In the end, they eventually held a cessation in early 1943. However, they did not surrender with a positive end. The Germans ended up succumbing more than 300 000 casualties. Subsequently, the army of the Soviet Union acquired the territory they had lost. Thereafter Soviets ended up appending to the war on the Allies' side.