DURING the course of 1918 the alliance between the Entente powers and the United States grew in cohesion, at sea as well as on land, and in its control of global resources and its capacity to use them for the purposes of the war. At the same time, tensions between the Central Powers, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire, intensified. One alliance rallied, and the other fell apart. The consequences determined both how and when the war was won. . https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/17214707.war-was-won-as-germany-fell-apart/