Imperial Germany Could Have Won in 1918!

The world would likely be a vastly different place had Germany won WWI, or at least forced a peace agreement that benefited both sides.

No Hitler. No Nazis.

The USSR would likely become the ultimate problem in the ‘40-60s.

Japan’s course would be interesting, considering their massive cultural shift status post the atomic bombs.

Wonder if it would be better or worse than we currently are.

More likely that the US fully commits and Germany holds out one more year.

The second that Ludendorff/Hindenburg re-started unrestricted sub warfare, they lost the war.

This is a gross oversimplification.

Germany was crumbling from the inside. Their own workers, sailors, etc... were mutinying and occupying government buildings. By 1918 it was going to be near impossible for the Kaiser to hold on to power in Germany, let alone win a war against another country.

I don’t think they could have won it in 1918. Germans could have turned the tide and perhaps ended with a German victory with the last ditch offensive. But it would have been in 1919 or later.

they also could’ve not surrendered while still being on foreign soil

A flight of fantasy. Germany was facing critical shortages in 1918. The British navy had effectively shut off shipping. The Germans could not get oil out of Romania due to the British commandos blowing up the oil refineries there. The entrance of the Americans tipped the scales very much in favor of the Allies in 1917 by early 1918 they were in an unwinnable position.

Britain and France could have won thae war by themselves over time. The British in particular were leveraging their access to oil in Persia and Royal Dutch Shell , although ostensibly a Dutch company was sending most of its oil to the UK. On top of it the French and English were also using troops from the empire. We tend to think of the English Tommy's, but there were close to a million Indians involved as well and Aussies and Canadians. The French were leveraging a lot of their African colonies....the Senegalese and Algerian and Moroccans.

The Americans were essentially brought in for the kill shot during the summer of 1918.

Germany didn't have the manpower capability of the British Empire. The American intervention certainly moved the inevitably process forward, but even in a trench stalemate, the British and French would have prevailed even at an even more horrendous loss of life.