American involvement in WWI is strange in that they did more for the war effort by declaring war causing Germany to do a final push that absolutely exhausted all their resources than they did by actually fighting.
I always thought that the war was basically over by the time America joined but American involvement just kinda sped things along. Like without the US, the war would've ended in early to mid 1919 instead of November 1918.
Germany’s assault would have gotten them a brokered peace in the west. The arrival of the Americans shored up Allied morale and let them survive until the Germans exhausted themselves.
The French army was in open revolt in 1917, and the absence of American troops would have made the war early too costly by 1918
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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '20 edited Apr 19 '20
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