The main goal of imperialism africa was

To make money, control trade, raw materials and cheap labor, explore unknown areas, more scientific research, go on an adventure, gain power, compete with territory, good military force, prestige. Spread European values, Spread Christianity, protect European missionaries.

was motivated by three main factors, economic, political, and social. It developed in the nineteenth century following the collapse of the profitability of the slave trade, its abolition and suppression, as well as the expansion of the European capitalist Industrial Revolution.

“the battle of stalingrad is not a turning point necessarily in strategic terms, because a lot more has to be done before the soviets can be certain of defeating germany,” says renowned world war ii historian richard overy. the germans had fought nearly a thousand miles across the soviet union to get to stalingrad.