Given that the world was at war, how were the central powers defeated?

One of reasons the Central Powers were defeated was the entrance of the US forces into the war brought vast new resources to the allied forces. This also meant that the Allied forces were able to produce more war materials than the Central Powers, which proved to be decisive.

Explanation:

the punishment for breaking the law would depend on the conditions or the seriousness of the law being broken, if he or she breaks the law while doing some great discovery or invention then it would classify as a scientific fraud. there are other words to describe the crime but scientific fraud would be the harshest one.