Western Front Allied forces Hundred Days Offensive Imperial German Navy mutinied German Revolution signed an armistice France Belgium Fourteen Points armistice Central Powers
During the autumn of 1918, the Central Powers began to collapse.
Desertion rates within the German army began to increase, and civilian strikes drastically reduced war production.
On the Western Front, the Allied forces launched the Hundred Days Offensive and decisively defeated the German western armies.
Sailors of the Imperial German Navy at Kiel mutinied, which prompted uprisings in Germany, which became known as the German Revolution.
The German government tried to obtain a peace settlement based on the Fourteen Points, and maintained it was on this basis that they surrendered. Following negotiations, the Allied powers and Germany signed an armistice, which came into effect on 11 November while German forces were still positioned in France and Belgium.
