A question about World War I?

Question

What led to Germany's surrender? I type into google and I get information about WWII. Is it because of Britian's blockade which deprived them of food, sickness/disease and mechanized warfare?

Answer 1

see attached link. Might be useful

Answer 2

The biggest single factor was the entry of the United States into the war in 1917. Before that time there was a stalemate and Germany could actually see a time when the Allied Powers would broker a peace deal to end the bloodshed.
After the US, with its limitless resources, entered the war the German people started to realise there was no way they could continue.
This was linked to increased deprivation for the common people in Germany and a change in attitude among the ruling elite.

Answer 3

The peace was never going to be a mild one. Years of devastation, and the huge loses of life saw to that. The Armistice agreement set the tone, and was in all but name a German surrender, with the Germans agreeing to evacuate all occupied territory and Alsace Lorraine, disarm, surrender their navy, and allow three occupied bridgeheads over the Rhine. When the Paris Peace Conference finally started on 18 January 1919, the mood was savage. Even President Wilson, who had been seen as the voice of reason, had been hardened by American loses. The French leader, Clemenceau, wanted to make sure Germany could never again threaten France. Lloyd George, who had already gained Britains pre-war aims before the conference, wanted to ensure a stable and prosperous Europe to aid British recovery after the war. It was Clemenceau who was came closest to his aims. The Treaty of Versailles (28 June 1919), has ever since been seen as overly harsh, but the German demands if they had won would have been more severe, and included the annexation of Belgium and Holland, as well as large chunks of Eastern Europe. The main clauses of the treaty were German admission of war guilt; the lose of her overseas colonies; the return of Alsace-Lorraine to France, the Saar to be held by France until a 1935 referendum (when the overwhelming vote was to return to Germany), Schleswig to go Denmark, and most of Silesia to go to the newly reformed Poland; reparations of $56 billion (totally unrealistic), and finally that Germany would be disarmed, with an army of 100,000 men, the navy reduced to a coastal defence force, and no airforce at all. This was a war that saw over eight million military dead, and it is hardly surprising that the victors wished to make sure that Germany could never again threaten the peace of Europe.

Answer 4

Try typing in "the Great War" . Used to be known as that.