How Did Germany Lose Ww1

The Defeat of the Central Powers In World War I the Central Powers side consisted of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and eventually Turkey. Throughout the war Germany had to come to its weak allies’ rescue during battle. Therefore Germany assumed the leadership position of the Central Powers. Germany continually brought havoc onto itself and its allies by making poor decisions throughout the First World War. The most significant decisions made by Germany that led to the defeat of the Central Powers were bringing unwanted countries into the war and continuing to fight on nothing. A set of poor, yet significant decisions Germany made during World War I brought unwanted countries into the war. The first poor decision requires looking back several years to the formation of the
The plan then was to completely knock France out of the war in a little over a month, and return back to Germany to face Russia. This plan was ridiculously risky, yet the German officials decided to revolve their entire war schedule around this Schlieffen Plan. They invaded neutral Belgium without taking enough consideration into the alliance treaty between Britain and Belgium. This poor decision caused Britain to enter the war on the Allies side. The German officials stubbornly decided to continue the Schlieffen Plan and continue its journey to invade France. Long story short, the Schlieffen plan was a complete failure since the French did not get quickly knocked out of the war as Germany expected, and Russian forces finished mobilization way faster than Germany had hoped. The most significant country Germany foolishly caused to enter the war was the United States of America. Germany continually bombed the US’s neutral ships through unconditional submarine warfare, which occurred right after Germany had signed a treaty with the US saying they would not bomb any more neutral ships. Germany was aware that the United States may join the war if they continued bombing their