re: Knowing What we Know now, does Gavrilo Princip pull the Trigger?

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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.

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A Pyrrhic victory perhaps though. It changed American foreign policy forever and may result in our eventual internal collapse.