21. victory in arms reach

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After the arrival of us troops the allies had 4 million troops at thier disposal
The first worked on knocking out the Ottoman Empire
The rose up from israel and kuwait taking Baghdad and Damascus
they also encouraged revolts from arabs

In this dash for the capital the ottomans lost half of their troops and surrendered
They next worked on Austria-Hungary and bulgaria
Greece had entered the war shortly after the united states so they had a base

They invaded bulgaria, making it to the capital of Sofia in two weeks
All the pressure of fighting on three fronts stressed aistria hungary and italy soon took venice back destroying the austrian army

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