Why were Germany and her allies unsuccessful in WWI

Why were Germany and her allies unsuccessful in WWI

During WWI both sides had lost a lot of men but not the sacrifice that Germany and her allies took by losing the war. There are many reasons that Germany and her allies lost the war. The failure of the Von Schlieffen Plan, the lack of good alternative strategies, the ineffectiveness of her Alliance System, the limitations of German’s economy and geography and lastly the entry of the USA. These factors and events made Germany and her allies lose the war, get defeated really bad and lose a huge amount of men.

The failure of the Von Schlieffen Plan was the plan of the Germans, to go through Belgium to attack France and take Paris. The Germans, wanted to destroy France, to take them out of their way. After defeating France, they would put all their focus on Russia. Although, the Germans weren’t able to go through Belgium that easy, because they invited a neutral country and also England helped Belgium. After the failure of the Von Schlieffen Plan, the lack of good alternative strategies was an important problem, that caused Germany and the allies the war. The Germans, although they were the strongest country in WWI, they didn’t use their power in a useful way. They didn’t have any military strategies, whenever they attacked a country on a battle, they use high risk attack, and if it field, they didn’t know what to do afterwards. They just waited there until they could make a high risk attack again.

The allies of Germany didn’t really help them in the war. Germany was the strongest one, although she didn’t have strong back up countries to help them. The only other strong ally was Austro-Hungary. Although Austro-Hungary and Germany did have a good lack of communication. Germany had to give more to her allies, than receive from them. This was a huge disadvantages.

Nationalism was a huge factor for Germany. Her economy was only based in the nationalism of the country. They didn’t really have a normal tax system. They mostly relied on people to give them money and goods. Germanys economy wasn’t that great although she was doing ok in the world. Another disadvantage was that their weapon companies weren’t owned by German itself, and they didn’t and they didn’t even know who to pay exactly to get more weapons. Germany’s geographic place was a disaster for them. They were located in the middle of Europe and they were surrounded by the allies powers, so they had to fight on a lot of open fronts.

The entry of the USA in the war, made things even more harder for Germany and her allies. The USA was a strong country with a lot of supplies and men. When they joint war , they decreased the moral of the allies as they were fresh and exited soldiers, ready to fight for their country. As the USA was sending 20,000 troops to France, the Germans were running of supplies, money, men and resources.

I believe it was obvious that the Germans, would lose because they had many disadvantages and so few advantages. The biggest problems of the allies side was the ineffectiveness of her Alliance System and there geographic place. Although they were really strong, they couldn’t fight against so many countries that were surrounded to her.