Wednesday 17 November 2010

Why did Germany and her allies lose WWI?

During WWI all the country who was taking part in fighting in the war lost a great number of soldiers and battles for their countries. Yet only a few countries knew how it felt to completely lose WWI. Germany and her allies were the side which lost WWI. There are a number of reasons why they lost. But there are critical effects that if they were dealt in a correct manner the result of the war could have been much different. Because Germany and her allies were politically unstable this had a great affect on their military and economy which overall made them lose WWI.

When the war started ciaos was around all of Europe. Armies were getting ready for the battles which were to come. In the begging Germany and her allies were very pumped up to go to war and fight. Nationalism was very high at the time. The battles had begun and the central powers were winning. But what was to come next none of the central powers expected. Things went completely downwards. Germany wanted to invade France, and went through neutral Belgium. By doing this it sparked a dispute between the British and Germans. When the Germans refused to leave neutral Belgium, Britain came into WWI against Germany. Because of Britain entering, the war became different; they started to use tactics which at the end would crush the central powers, till the point where they would lose WWI. Britain started by using propaganda “Poor Little Belgium”, unlike the Germans the British used this to their benefit to make their soldiers hate the Germans, by showing that they were to fight monsters made their army physiologically stronger then those of Germany. It came to the point where the Germans were so misinformed with their propaganda that they started going against the government. Germany did not think that they should prepare harder when going against Britain, they were being arrogant and thought they could easily have victory.

While fighting in the war Germany was politically unstable. There was fighting between two parties who would run the government. At the same time the Kaiser had left German and went to Holland, because of the “Turnip Winter 1917” which was the communist party becoming very strong. The major problems which lead from this effect were in the army. None of the army officials knew from where they would get their orders from, let alone their actual weapons. When this news was going around to the solders that their government and monarchy was collapsing most of the men were did not want to fight anymore. This could be considered the greatest mistake of Germany. No agreement was made to order the army to take certain actions which both sides agreed on. The allies however were smart and elected one man to be the commander and chief of all the armies and just be concerned, and stay focused with them. The Germany had trouble to rely on her allies because they themselves were not in a perfect situation as well, both Austrian-Hungarian and Ottoman empires were collapsing, and like Germany trying to solve their problems. Germany was in trouble and needed more allies to have a chance to at survive the war, but instead of making the finding a solution they made the problems even worse. Germany sends a letter to Mexico saying to make a war with the Unites States, Mexico declined, but the Unites States is angered by Germany. This gives them reason to enter the war.

The war needed a substantial amount of money. Yet the rate that Germany was going at the country was getting lower in dept everyday. Germanise mistake in this case was that they did not have a system like the British. D.O.R.A gave the British government wide-ranging powers which gave money to support their armies during the war. Germany did not have factories to built weapons for the army, as well as having no official tax system. This meant that the countries purely relied on national tax system where the people donated their money and wealth for the good of the country.

Can it be said that it was just because of Germany and her allies Militarily, Politically, Economically problems that they had lost WWI. Perhaps it was because that Germany basically was fighting the war alone. Austrian-Hungary and the Ottomans did not really have a great affect on the war. In w away it is true to think that Germanise armies were fighting ruefully 10 different armies at the same time. By just thinking about that you would not expect for Germany to win this war. Possibly from the beginning there was no victory for Germany to set their eyes on. However if the country was in its golden age it could have been victories but still it would be very difficult for this outcome to happen.

The whole of Europe was marked by WWI. From the countries that entered from the beginning of the war to the ones who just came in for the victory. In total this war gave Germany and her allies a lot of experience to take in. Germany nearly could have won the war, even if all the countries went to the side of the allies. All Germany had to do was to keep order in the country and not be arrogant in the sense that victory would be easy to achieve. Once the system went down in Germany it never had enough time to repair itself, an analogy would be if you have a wound and you are always poking it, it has no time to heal causing it infection and a scar; this is what happened in Germany during the war. Yet it is still surprising to see that the central powers lasted so long against the allies even when Britain and The Unites States were in the war.

2 comments:

  1. ask: Restructure your thesis to make it truly original and argumentative

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  2. your essay is ok but needs historiography. refrence to historians who share or contradict your opinion so you can get a better mark

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