World War One was a massive global event that involved most of Europe, and near the end, the United States and many other American countries as well. It was the most catastrophic war the world had ever seen. The whole war started on June 28, 1914, when Gavrilo Princip, a twenty year old Serbian man, shot and killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary (Yomtov 10). The Serbian man was a terrorist from an organization known as the Black Hand, a Serbian nationalist group that was dedicated to freedom from Austrian rule (Yomtov 10). Austria-Hungary blamed Serbia for the assassination, and Serbia refused to allow Austria-Hungary conduct an investigation into the assassination. Austria-Hungary, confident in the alliance …show more content…
One way, was the United States sent a flood of supplies to the Allies (Stewart 23). These supplies gave the Allies a means of continuing and bolstering the war effort, as it helped to maintain their army. Since the United States had cut off relations with Germany and was not trading with the Central Powers, this made it harder for them to continue their war effort and gave the Allies the advantage (“World”). After the United States had declared war on the Central Powers because of the attacks from submarine boats, the United States allowed for the Allies to continue a war effort through trade. The Allies could no longer afford to keep up the war effort, so the United States kept the war effort alive. The United States produced armaments, not only for themselves, but also for France and Great Britain. The United States gave those countries enormous extensions of credit and loans worth over $7,000,000,000 (“World”). Without the United States upholding the war effort, the Allies would not have been able to get the supplies that were needed to maintain the war effort. All of this support through trade to the Allies gave the Allies the upper hand, and it partially led to the Allied victory of World War …show more content…
In 1917 the Allies launched another major offensive on the Aisne River with 1.2 million troops, but it failed even more miserably than the Somme offensive. 40,000 French soldiers died on April 16 alone, the first day of the offensive, and the attack was abandoned by mid-May (Yomtov 55). The Allies could gain no ground against the Central Powers, and in 1918 the Central powers nearly destroyed the Allies before the United States could get there. The first two major battles of the Central Powers’ attack were in March and April, and they nearly destroyed the British Army (Yomtov 80). The third battle was fought in May, and it brought the Germans within 60 miles of Paris (Yomtov 81). Massive German gains had put the Allies on the edge of defeat. Then the American troops