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[[File: German Offensive 1.jpg|thumbnail|left|300px|German troops taking an allied trench in 1918]]
The General Erich Ludendorff's German Spring Offensive of 1918 was one of the last great offensives of the First World Warand an abject failure. The When the offensive ultimately failed, and the allies were able to beat back the German attacks. The German Spring Offensive of 1918 was the last effort by Germany to win the war, and its failure meant that the Central Powers had effectively lost. If the Spring Offensive had succeeded in the outcome of the war and the course of history in the Twentieth Century would have been very different. The German Spring Offensive stalled for a variety of reasons including inadequate supplies, stubborn Allied defensive tactics, an over-reliance on German Stormtroopers, and the German military overestimation of their offensive capabilities.
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