6. The Defeat of Germany and the Central Powers
A range of different factors impacted on the outcome of the First World War: internal stability in the Central Powers and the role of the US as well as strategic errors on the part of the Central Powers, economic weaknesses and strengths of the Allies by 1918. Historians differ in their perspectives on the reasons for the defeat of the Central Powers in the First World War. For example, John Keegan, in the First...