Struggle: to contend with an adversary or opposing force. Struggle is faced by many people everyday and struggle shapes people, their future, and the future of the world. People face different amounts of struggle and struggle can be caused by an infinite number of things. In the Battle of the Bulge everyone in it struggled for their own side, government, belief, and to save their own life. The Battle of the Bulge was a pivotal part of World War II The causes of the Battle of the Bulge were very important to World War II. In July of 1944 the Germans started to rapidly build up their military reserves. The reserves increased by more than a ¼ million, but it was still not enough. They kept on building them up because they knew even if it would
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“Fuel shortages helped doom the German offensive” (Andrews). With German troubles, such as fuel shortages, majorly helped with American offences and helped end the battle. On January 8th, 13 days after Von Rundstedt advice, Hitler started to withdraw troops in a piecemeal fashion. One day after withdrawal began Patton’s troops fully broke through and four days later Hitler started a full withdrawal and 15 days later the bulge was finally gone and the Battle of the Bulge was over (Farmer 38). At first Hitler was reluctant to withdraw troops but once he started to he realized that it was his best plan to not completely drain his reserves he started to withdraw rapidly and end the battle. All in all there were 90,000 allie causality, Hitler lost 600 tanks, 1,600 aircraft, and it depleted his reserves and destroyed over 3,500 citizen transportation devices (Farmer 38). The battle caused a lot of damage on both sides of the battle, and ultimately lead to the end of Hitler.
The causes, the battle, and the ending of the Battle of the Bulge was a pivotal part of World War II. The Battle of the Bulge was horrific, but in the long run it helped more than it hurt. Thanks to everyone's personal struggles the world’s future is being slightly changed everyday and can it can be made better or worse. If people can face their struggles in the face of adversity then the world’s future will only become better and brighter for everyone. When struggles and hardship are put to good use the world gets shaped and molded and will become better for
“Fuel shortages helped doom the German offensive” (Andrews). With German troubles, such as fuel shortages, majorly helped with American offences and helped end the battle. On January 8th, 13 days after Von Rundstedt advice, Hitler started to withdraw troops in a piecemeal fashion. One day after withdrawal began Patton’s troops fully broke through and four days later Hitler started a full withdrawal and 15 days later the bulge was finally gone and the Battle of the Bulge was over (Farmer 38). At first Hitler was reluctant to withdraw troops but once he started to he realized that it was his best plan to not completely drain his reserves he started to withdraw rapidly and end the battle. All in all there were 90,000 allie causality, Hitler lost 600 tanks, 1,600 aircraft, and it depleted his reserves and destroyed over 3,500 citizen transportation devices (Farmer 38). The battle caused a lot of damage on both sides of the battle, and ultimately lead to the end of Hitler.
The causes, the battle, and the ending of the Battle of the Bulge was a pivotal part of World War II. The Battle of the Bulge was horrific, but in the long run it helped more than it hurt. Thanks to everyone's personal struggles the world’s future is being slightly changed everyday and can it can be made better or worse. If people can face their struggles in the face of adversity then the world’s future will only become better and brighter for everyone. When struggles and hardship are put to good use the world gets shaped and molded and will become better for