Why Did Germany Lose The War In 1918

In the spring of 1918 the Russian Revolution took Russia completely out of the war and in doing so let half of a million German soldiers leave the eastern front. Germany finally had the numbers to put toward the western front to win the war. The Germans began with the Michael Offensive to breach a 12 mile sector of Britain that was weak. The strategy was short but intense bombings followed with swift sweeps with Stormtroopers. On March 21, 1918, 1 million shells were spent in 5 hours’ time, Germany then used poison gases to wipe out the allied soldiers. Many say the poisoned British soldiers never saw it coming. 21,000 British were captured and what was left of the 5th army was told to withdraw, this would be the biggest German breakthrough in trench warfare to date. Germany then set their sights to Paris, unloading 183 on the city causing civilians to go packing. Germany of course saw this as a great accomplishment and even declared the 24th of March a holiday, the loss caused the British people to think

People wanted change, peace and democracy for Germany. The war had become old and many wanted the old war to die. Ideas of rebellion came, defeatist messages even coming into letters from home. The central powers stepped in censoring and holding pessimistic letters from the soldiers. The powers decided that propaganda was to be used to boost morale, restore the people’s faith and to irradiate all doubt. Films were used to increase war effort, to get the people to keep buying war bonds and to teach secrecy and security. It even got to the point that women were asked to spy on the people and root out and defeatist ideas. The fatherland party was formed yet, with all this propaganda all it did was add fuel to the fire of rebellion and defeatism. A German civilian strike was beginning to spread and 400,000 people went to the streets in