Which factors played the biggest part in breaking the Stalemate on the Western Front?

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Which factors played the biggest part in breaking the Stalemate on the Western Front?

In 1918 the war was ending. The Americans had joined the war and were transferring troops over to France at the rate of 50,000 a month. The Germans needed to act quickly and decisively to turn the desperate situation they were in, to a military victory. The stalemate was broken on the Western Front due to these 4 factors; the American entry into the war, new technology such as the tank, aeroplane; the blockading of German ports and the Ludendorff Offensive. Historians have argued that these are all equally important factors in the breaking of the stalemate on the Western Front. I do not agree with this and I believe that there is an order to this.

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For the whole war Britain warships had been blockading German ports to starve the country of raw materials and essential supplies such as food. This had taken its toll on the German morale effecting how the front line soldiers fought and how the civilians on the home front viewed the war. This blockading was the reason the German generals had to risk it all on the Ludendorff Offensive. They were fighting a war of attrition, of which they were losing. They had scarce resources left so everything had to be risked in an all or nothing offensive.

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