I think it should be the battle of the bulge.
helped pave the way for a later all-out offensive
The effect was to begin the start of World War II in Europe.
No, the USSR not East Germany.
World War II began on September 1st 1939 with the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany. If that's what your talking about
The Battle of the Bulge
Having won in the eastern theater, Germany began its offensive against France. It began in May of 1940.
Germany
Germany, the Nazis, had the upperhand at the begginning of World War 2 because they started it and they were on the offensive.
Japan mounted offensive operations.
Germany
Germany invaded Belgium, using a strategy called the Schleiffen Plan. As troops swept across Belgium, thousands of civilians fled in terror. In Brussels, the Belgian capital, an American war correspondent described the first major refugee crisis of the 20th century.
Germany's offensive fighting tactic, means lightning war, Blitzkrieg
World War 2 began when Germany invades Poland in 1939.
World War Two (WWII) in Europe, Nazi Germany's last great offensive.
The Ludendorff Offensive contributed to Germany's loss by the fact that Germany's army was now spread too thinly across the Western front, and that (although the offensive was effective at first) the morale of the German soldiers was declining as sheer exhaustion and hunger overcame them, Germany withered as the will to fight in the Great war was breaking.Also this offensive prompted a major and powerful retaliation from the Allied troops from Britain, France, America etc.
Battle of the Bulge