1 What can we learn from Source A about the reasons why the Allies were successful in the Hundred Days Offensive?
By 1918 the warring nations in the First World War were trapped in a bloody, terrible stalemate. Yet, of the combatants, Germany had reasons to be hopeful. In March, Russia had been defeated and forced to sign over a large proportion of its resources to Germany. With Russia out of the war, Germany could send all its forces to attack the Allies in the west. Emboldened by patriotic propaganda, the German people fully expected victory. Few then could have predicted that by November of that year the war would have ended and Germany would be defeated. Why did the First World War end so suddenly? And why was Germany defeated?
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