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re: Knowing What we Know now, does Gavrilo Princip pull the Trigger?
Posted on 2/10/16 at 9:55 pm to soccerfüt
Posted on 2/10/16 at 9:55 pm to soccerfüt
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The U.S. was the clear winner after WWI, maybe not as much in other scenarios?
This is what I've gathered from this mostly. We got shitloads of money from it and kept our military out of the war until the very end when we came in and were the real knockout blow to the Germans. If WWII put America on the map as the biggest military power; then WWI put America on the map as the biggest economic power. I mean, we bankrolled the Allied powers, much like we did in WWII. Also, what a lot of people don't realize is that the center for world trade shifted from Britain to the U.S. in WWI.
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Posted on 2/10/16 at 10:12 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
Another thing that I find incredibly interesting about WWI is the amount of casualties inflicted in single battles. Although, the battles would last many times 6+ months along huge fronts; it's just astonishing that countries and militaries would willingly send men to the front for what was literally certain death for the men.
Take the Battle of the Somme, for instance. There were around 750,000 casualties on ONE side alone.
There's absolutely no way that there could be another battle nowadays that have even a quarter of those casualties. There would be riots in the streets. Whole governments would be brought down because of that today. Hell, in WWI, a battle with 100,000+ happened almost every single battle.
Take the Battle of the Somme, for instance. There were around 750,000 casualties on ONE side alone.
There's absolutely no way that there could be another battle nowadays that have even a quarter of those casualties. There would be riots in the streets. Whole governments would be brought down because of that today. Hell, in WWI, a battle with 100,000+ happened almost every single battle.
Posted on 2/11/16 at 12:53 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
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This is what I've gathered from this mostly. We got shitloads of money from it and kept our military out of the war until the very end when we came in and were the real knockout blow to the Germans. If WWII put America on the map as the biggest military power; then WWI put America on the map as the biggest economic power. I mean, we bankrolled the Allied powers, much like we did in WWII. Also, what a lot of people don't realize is that the center for world trade shifted from Britain to the U.S. in WWI.
A Pyrrhic victory perhaps though. It changed American foreign policy forever and may result in our eventual internal collapse.
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