Why Did Germany Lose WW1

        Even though Russia had been defeated by Germany in March 1918,and was now officially out of the war and despite the fact that the French and the British armies were both tiered and wanted to fight no more, they were still powerful. Also the American troupes, which had been mobilizing since April 6th 1917 when America had declared war on The Central Powers, and for whom the Entente had been waiting, was soon to arrive, leaving Germany with no more than six weeks to take Paris. The USA who had been neutral up to 1917, and who had been importing and exporting goods to and from Germany until then, declared war because of a telegram, now known as ‘The Zimmermann Telegram’. The Foreign Secretary of Germany, Arthur Zimmermann, sent this telegram to Mexico on January 16th 1917, telling Mexico that if they would attack America, Germany would give them the states of Texas, Arizona and New Mexico. The Zimmermann Telegram was intercepted by British spies who were spying on the United States of America. Also America was angered after Germany sank The Lusitania, a British ship with many American women, children and men onboard, on May 7th 1915. Germany then made a promise; not to target passenger ships again, leading to Germany removing its U-Boots from around Britain, who had until then cut off Britain from the rest of the world, starving it. However, early in the year 1917 Germany took up its U-Boots once again, realizing that they would lose the war if they wouldn’t.  

        But not all of Germany’s enemies were located outside of it. The people within Germany wanted that the war ended. The soldiers were tired of fighting and wanted to stop, they also had little food available, slowly starving them. Women, children and the old throughout Germany were starving due to the British Blockade. German solders fighting in   Russia or on the Russian boarder heard of Lenin and his idea, “Peace, bread and land.” for four years. They were sick and tired of fighting, especially for Kaiser Wilhelm II. They wanted to be a communist state, just like Russia was becoming. They no longer wanted to be ruled by a Kaiser, they no longer wanted to be forced to go to a suicidal war.

        Therefore, as we can see Germany lost the First World War. They lost because Germany had incredibly weak allies with Austria–Hungary and Italy, because the enemies Germany was up against were simply too strong together with the American troupes and because the people inside of Germany and the German army wanted to fight no more.