America’s entry into the Great War helped make possible the defeat of Germany that had eluded Britain, France, Russia, and Italy in three and a half years of horrendous carnage. involvement, through the provocations and manipulations that drew us into the fight, to the battlefield itself and the shattering aftermath of the struggle. Meyer takes readers from the heated deliberations over U.S. With the mercurial, autocratic President Woodrow Wilson as a primary focus, G. On November 11, 1918, when the fighting stopped, it was not only the richest country on earth but the mightiest.
When it declared war, the United States was the youngest of the major powers and militarily the weakest by far.
The World Remade is an engrossing chronicle of America’s pivotal, still controversial intervention into World War I, encompassing the tumultuous politics and towering historical figures that defined the era and forged the future. After years of bitter debate, the United States declared war on Imperial Germany on April 6, 1917, plunging the country into the savage European conflict that would redraw the map of the continent-and the globe.
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