The Allies "won" World War I by simply outlasting the Central Powers. Germany was fighting a two front war for most of the conflict, an was bled by a long, grinding, attrition style of trench warfare that took millions of her young men. When the United States entered the war in 1917 on the Allied side, it was fresh, with a huge industrial base already manufacturing war materiel, and a population unbloodied as of yet. There was no way Germany could have competed long term with America allied against her.
Specifically, Germany failed to conquer Paris in the final 1918 offensive, in large part due to the presence of American troops. Germany's economy was bankrupt and teetering, its reserves of manpower exhausted, and it was forced to sue for peace.
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