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How did WW1 end? Defeat of Germany?
Re: How did WW1 end? Defeat of Germany?
A slightly different take:
https://www.historyextra.com/period/fir ... d-ww1-end/
Contrary to Marxist mythology, the First World War ended not through mutiny or popular uprising, but through decisive military defeat. Certainly, the major combatants were exhausted, and their peoples weary of the war, but the only country voluntarily to withdraw from the war was Bolshevik Russia.
Germany launched its forces into a huge offensive in France in the spring of 1918, breaking the trench deadlock and threatening Paris. The Allies regrouped, broke the German advance and counter-attacked. On 8 August, at Amiens, Haig inflicted a devastating defeat on the Germans – German general Erich Ludendorff called it the ‘Black Day of the German Army’.
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Further heavy defeats followed, and by September both he and Paul von Hindenburg [a senior military figure] were demanding an end to the war. Faced with total defeat, in November the Germans forced the Kaiser to abdicate and declared a republic, which then asked for an armistice. It is difficult to conceive that this would have happened had Germany not been crushed on the battlefield.
https://www.historyextra.com/period/fir ... d-ww1-end/
Contrary to Marxist mythology, the First World War ended not through mutiny or popular uprising, but through decisive military defeat. Certainly, the major combatants were exhausted, and their peoples weary of the war, but the only country voluntarily to withdraw from the war was Bolshevik Russia.
Germany launched its forces into a huge offensive in France in the spring of 1918, breaking the trench deadlock and threatening Paris. The Allies regrouped, broke the German advance and counter-attacked. On 8 August, at Amiens, Haig inflicted a devastating defeat on the Germans – German general Erich Ludendorff called it the ‘Black Day of the German Army’.
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Further heavy defeats followed, and by September both he and Paul von Hindenburg [a senior military figure] were demanding an end to the war. Faced with total defeat, in November the Germans forced the Kaiser to abdicate and declared a republic, which then asked for an armistice. It is difficult to conceive that this would have happened had Germany not been crushed on the battlefield.
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Re: How did WW1 end? Defeat of Germany?
Maybe a small part of the reason but not the whole reason, by any means. Soldiers were dying in the trenches, right to the last day. The war did not end on 11 November. For the United Kingdom and the British Empire, the state of war ceased under the provisions of the Termination of the Present War (Definition) Act 1918 with respect to:
Germany on 10 January 1920.[230]
Austria on 16 July 1920.[231]
Bulgaria on 9 August 1920.[232]
Hungary on 26 July 1921.[233]
Turkey on 6 August 1924.[234] [Wikipedia]
However, Austria and Hungary tried to sue for peace before 11 November.
Germany on 10 January 1920.[230]
Austria on 16 July 1920.[231]
Bulgaria on 9 August 1920.[232]
Hungary on 26 July 1921.[233]
Turkey on 6 August 1924.[234] [Wikipedia]
However, Austria and Hungary tried to sue for peace before 11 November.
