Western Civilization II / Unit 14 WC2 1319 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Why America Mattered: Industry and Fresh Men
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The idea
America had been Britain's supplier and creditor, about two billion dollars in loans by spring nineteen seventeen, the witness says. Its importance now was not troops or weapons but industrial capacity that dwarfed Europe's combined, and millions of fresh men against a Germany three years thin on supplies.
In practice
Twenty-seven million dollars to the Central Powers, the witness's contrast.
Where people slip
Period sums, not converted.
Your place on the trail
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