Zusammenfassung der Ressource
End of the First World
War
- Reason why
the Allies won
- Allies
- America entered the
war on the allies side,
April 6th 1918
- Germany was afraid of
countless American soldiers
on the allies side
- More troops
boosted
morale among
allies
- Technology
- The allies had
better technology
- Especially towards the
end of the war they had
better tanks and aircrafts
- Tactics
- The allies realised
sooner than the
Germans that trench
warfare wasn't
affective
- Allies invested
in tanks, aircrafts
- Reason why the Germans lost
- Exhaustion
- By 1918 an
epidemic of
influenza had
spread
- Germans were
hungry (from
blockades)
- As a result of starvation
millions of German
civilians were dying
- Blockade
- The British Naval Policy
to blockade Germany
cut off supplies
- This caused
starvation and
exhaustion as little
food reached
Germany
- Kaiser Wilhelm
- German emperor
abdicated 9th
November 1918
- The
government
knew they had
to end the war
before he
abdicated
- This meant the
government surrendered
on 11th November