american wwi soldiers depended on foreign weapons

When he was rejected, Lewis sold the design to Britain and Belgium, where it was mass-produced throughout the war. . ... Collectively protected by America’s plentiful armed escort ships, convoys were the key to saving Britain from defeat and allowing American ground forces to arrive in..

was the great war necessary?

And because of the economic, social, and political forces the war produced, the kind of poverty pre-1914 Britain, never recurred.. ... Ferguson states, however, that had Britain not intervened, Germany would have honored its pledge to London, to French and Belgian in return for..

the morning of november 11, 1918

Before long, New York banks would be loaning billions to Germany so that it could pay billions in reparations to Britain, France, and Belgium, so that they could repay millions in war debt to U.S. banks. . ... It is fitting to end this short contemplation of November 11, 1918, with a song that..

world war i in numbers

Siam among more as many of the more than 70 current-day nations drawn into the conflict had not yet gained independence from the six empires and colonial powers at its Austria-Hungary, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and Ottoman empire.. ..

how world war i shaped the 20th century and beyond

While the prestige of the main victors Britain and France was at in 1919, it did not hide the blossoming on the international stage of United States, military and in Western camp in the following decades.. By then Britain had also made clear, through Balfour Declaration, its support for..

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