Why were the allies victorious WWI?
It boils down to industrial capacity – more ships, planes, tanks, artillery pieces, trucks, fuel, food, and weapons plus adequate manpower and an element of technical expertise added by Britain and the USA (radar, sonar, code breaking, etc.) eventually ending with the U.S, production of the atomic fission bombs (uranium and plutonium) which cost ~ $2 billion. Financial resources were also on the Allied side. Whoops – you said WWI, not II. That’s different. In WWI there was no complete military victory. Financial and food resources were a key in WWI plus the addition of U.S. manpower near the end. (Americans only fought for the last several months of the four year three month long war.) Remember that WWI ended with an armistice not an abject surrender. It turned into a de facto surrender since the British naval blockade that continued after the ceasefire/armistice forced Germany to accede to the outrageous demands of the Versailles settlement. Germany felt they had never been truly defe
