What prompted the Germans to ask for peace in 1918?

A) the successful British embargo on trade with Germany
B) the defeat of the German army in the Battle of the Argonne Forest
C) President Wilson's Fourteen Points
D) the surrender of the Russian army to Allied forces


Answer: B

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