ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

9 January 1917 German Crown Council meeting

Well, imagine that you and your friends are all playing a game together. But sometimes, when you're playing a game, someone might start to get really upset because they're not winning. That's kind of what was happening to a group of countries back in 1917.

Germany was one of those countries, and they were getting really frustrated because they weren't doing very well in a big fight that was happening all around them. So, some very important people in Germany got together for a meeting on January 9th, 1917. They called this meeting the "German Crown Council Meeting."

At this meeting, some of the most important people in Germany talked about what they should do next. They were trying to come up with a plan to help Germany start winning the fight. They talked about things like what other countries were doing, how much money Germany had, and what kind of weapons and tools they had to fight with.

The people in the meeting had very serious faces and talked in low voices because they knew that the decisions they made were going to be really important. They came up with a plan to try to make a big move that would make the other countries scared and hopefully give Germany an advantage.

But, even though they had a plan, it wasn't enough to help Germany win the fight. Eventually, the war ended, but the German Crown Council Meeting was an important moment in the history of the war because it showed that Germany was still trying to find a way to win, even when things seemed really tough.