Question:
What sort of bad stuff happened to the US during the first World War?
GreenThi
2009-02-09 22:05:46 UTC
I am trying to support the isolationism occuring in America during WW2. An essay that says sort of "haven't we learned our lesson from the first world war? why should we let Roosevelt use the LendLease policy to send weapons over there?"
Four answers:
anonymous
2009-02-09 22:13:06 UTC
Well lets see...

maybe killing?
Mark M
2009-02-09 22:57:53 UTC
I think the best one is, the entire war was an allied propaganda lie.

The US was supposed to be neutral right.

However half the British rifles used in the battle of the Some in 1916 were manufactured in the US, under British license. Opps.

Maybe they belonged to the load of hunting ammunition that the Lusitania was carrying when it blew up, I mean tragically sank in 1915. Opps.

It could be that when Perishing went over to France in 1917, the French were only too happy to equip the American army with French canon. French canon that was made with American steel since 1915. Oops.

Basically we were selling the allies everything that was not nailed down. American Grain, American Steel, American Rifles and small arms. American ammunition, American TNT. It could be by 1917 Americans held 15% of the allied war debt. If the allies lost, we would have been ruined.

It could be that the allies carefully controlled the press, so no one, not even the President of France, knew what was going on. It could be the French, never bothered to count their dead, until after the War. The British did count their dead, but they put such a positive spin on things. German casualties always seemed to be greater than allied casualties.

It could be that the allied propagandist painted the Terrible Hun as a blood soaked monster. It turned out; the Germans were really quite decent. They even led food aid go to Belgium, while their own people went hungry.

It could be we entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, and ended up with the Versailles treaty, which the United States refused to sign.



Many Isolationist felt they had been lied to, too many times.
Larry G
2009-02-09 22:35:59 UTC
Are you okay, did you hit your head? You want the USA to become an isolationist? Wow, if it weren't for the USA, Fascism and Communism would be all over the world, very little room for Democracy. Thanks to the USA, we now live in a FREE world, were everybody has a right to exercise and express their own opinion without any fear reprisal. Accept the reality we have now, thank you.



The worse thing that ever happened to the USA was the Influenza epidemic, it killed more people worldwide than the WWI put together.
nickipettis
2009-02-09 22:10:47 UTC
i don't think this is really what you are looking for, but a very bad thing that happened in the US during WW1 was the flu epidemic.



the flu killed more Americans than the war. Some historians believe that with the US and all of Europe in the flu epidemic, that the War came to an end mostly because everyone was just to sick to keep fighting, and the leaders of the countries knew that..


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