Why did World War 1 end so quickly after the years of stalemate

... nt sought a cease-fire on 3 November Germany stood alone without the aid of any allies.

If you consider all of these facts that were against Germany it seems as though they didn't stand a chance against the allies. In my view even the most optimistic German would have had to question how his country could possibly defeat England, France and the U.S.A. without the aid of any allies. Perhaps the events leading up to the end of the war could have effected German morale and this in turn could have also speeded up the allied victory because some Germans soldiers may have not even believed that their country still had a chance of winning.

To some degree the personalities of those involved led to a swift ending of the war after years of stalemate. On 29th September Lundendorff lost his nerve and announced to the Kaiser that the war was lost. He feared mistakenly that the allies would break through (when we look back we can see that his lack of judgement at a vital time contributed to the swift ending of the war).

On 3rd October he wrote to President Woodrow Wilson hoping that there would be a mild armistice but the 16th October found him rejecting Wilson's tough conditions and ordering that the war must be continued with "the most utmost determination". President Wilson asked the generals to draft an armistice and asked the allies to accept the fourteen points drawn up as a basis of future peace. Now rather than before Lundendorff's initial admission to defeat, the homefront as well as the army began to collapse. On 26th Octo ...