The Battle of the Buldge
From D-Day to the Fall of Berlin:
*Battle for Normandy - summer 1944
*Falaise Gap
*Liberation of Paris
*Recognized that the Russians would be the new war
*Tried to beat the Russians to Berlin
*Operation Market Garden - Sept. 1944 - Ploy to the end of the war before the Russians got to Berlin
*Failed attempt to capture all the bridges
*Plan was to drop all the paratroopers behind enemy lines
*Russians got to Berlin First
*Germans thought that the Americans were soft
The Battle of the Buldge - Last German counteroffensive of the war
*created a big bulge in the lines
*hoped they could get back to paris through american lines
*american held fast - win the battle in the end
*americans took the western half of germany
*met them along the Elbe River. Shook hands and war ends
*Within the year
*Battle for Normandy - summer 1944
*Falaise Gap
*Liberation of Paris
*Recognized that the Russians would be the new war
*Tried to beat the Russians to Berlin
*Operation Market Garden - Sept. 1944 - Ploy to the end of the war before the Russians got to Berlin
*Failed attempt to capture all the bridges
*Plan was to drop all the paratroopers behind enemy lines
*Russians got to Berlin First
*Germans thought that the Americans were soft
The Battle of the Buldge - Last German counteroffensive of the war
*created a big bulge in the lines
*hoped they could get back to paris through american lines
*american held fast - win the battle in the end
*americans took the western half of germany
*met them along the Elbe River. Shook hands and war ends
*Within the year
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Summary
The Battle of the Bulge was the Germans last attempt to salvage a win in this war. In the end they were not victorious and the war was essentially finished.