why was the battle of the bulge significant?

Answer 1

It was Hitler's last gasp and he almost pulled it off because the weather prevented our airplanes from flying for about a week.
We won and never looked back.

Answer 2

It wasn't - - - truly - - - if Hitler had succeeded it would have been but a temporary set back. There is no way that Hitler would have shoved The Brits and The Americans back to the Sea, at best German forces would have driven the Allies back across the Belgium border.

It was significant in that it proved that the Germans did not have the strength to carry on the war and that it was only a matter of a year or two before they would be completely subdued. It was significant for spotlighting the heroism of American soldiers.

Peace...

Answer 3

It was big news primarily because the Anglo-American forces were surprised and frightened, but the only real significance is that it took some valuable men and materiel, especially some crack SS panzer divisions, off the eastern front and frittered them away in the west. Though Hitler thought a successful operation would cause a split between the Anglo-American forces and the Soviets, it's unlikely that would have happened even in the worst-case scenario. It turned out to be just another Hitlerian miscalculation. Note that the vaunted panzers which rightfully scared the bejeezus out of the troops on the ground were horribly unreliable, and though many were lost to combat, more were lost to mechanical breakdown, and moving them across the continent was really wasteful, especially with all those T34's and KV-1's they could have been shooting up.

Answer 4

While Germany was on its back foot, its supplies had been over run by allied forces, if Germany were to survive those fuel supplies where needed to pinch of the British and American spearheads, thus ensued the last major tank battle in Europe where a tired and battered but still large and cable force of Panzer's tried to out maneuver the leading edges of the allied advance, i think all for the sake of 20 miles the Germans lost thus saving probably another 6mths of fighting.

The fact that by landing on the Beach's of Normandy instead of the Calais area left large amounts of panzer divisions in the north of Europe, these had been bypassed and really didn't see that much action until operation market garden, where the allies tried to take all the bridges on there way to Germany by airborne troops an adventurous plan which failed at the last bridge of Arnhem. At which point those bypassed panzer divisions were moving back to try and plug the advance to Germany.

Answer 5

It was the last major effort of the Germans to resist the Allied forces on the Western Front. After they lost that battle they were always on the retreat.

Answer 6

because it was the last chance for the germans to turn the tide of the war and they failed miserably, after that the allies pretty much just breezed there way into berlin where the russians were already waiting