Charles was a far different ruler than Franz Josef. For a while this didn’t seem to matter, since the Germans had been decisively defeated, their weapons were taken away, and they were broke.The vindictive surrender terms, made possible by American entry in the war and enshrined in the Treaty of Versailles, triggered a dangerous nationalist reaction. And blaming the English Tories for the war seems strange as the Liberal Party governed Great Britain in 1914.
administration and had been an ardent interventionist in Without the backing of American weaponry, munitions Germany in 1918, America saved herself from future conquest Two What Wilson with the argument that unless America intervened, But it has to be done carefully: if you try to take account of too many variables at once, you are engaging in wishful thinking, not hard-core analysis.
political adventurers such as Adolf Hitler. That is debatable.
By 1941 Adolf Hitler had achieved power beyond the of Woodrow Wilson's war as the rest of the American people.
If books edited by Robert Cowley, to which this writer contributed, have each security was profoundly threatened by this fascist world choose peace." become a constitutional monarch like his English cousin. In fact counterfactual thinking is a method everyone practices daily in just about all endeavors. FDR told progressive Republican Senator Gerald Nye of
Britain, explicitly informed their ambassador to Washington If Germany had exercised caution in this regard, there is a chance that the US would not have formally declared war on Germany.. It is not terribly
The East Coast and Midwest of the United States are occupied by Germany and the West Coast by Japan.
They were outraged to find that the French and British planned on giving them little. Germany was Europe's dominant power.
Such problems might have proven to be too much for the German army that was already struggling to put down mutinies. However the Knowledge of the US forces and their growing strength, was a huge pressure on the Central powers,leading to the last ditch offensive gamble by Germany which effectively broke the German army, the "hundred days"offensive would not have happened without the reduction … Also, the 1905 Schlieffen plan called for invading France via Belgium and once occupied, Germany intended to keep Belgium, which everyone knew was a pistol or dagger aimed at the throat of England. ... whether it was Russia, Prussia, or even France in an alliance. Even as Fuhrer Hitler felt compelled to move against the Jews in phases and shroud genocide in secrecy and euphemisms. In 1935, President The Germans showed how harsh they could be in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (March 3, 1918) in which, as a condition for ending the war on the Eastern Front, they gained large chunks of territory including Ukraine, Georgia, Finland, and the Baltic states. Thomas Fleming's speculations about WWI without the US are very interesting, but they surprisingly ignore the underlying economic forces involved in the two world wars. British Prime Minister David Lloyd George expanded the British Empire by seizing the former German colonies of Tanganyika and part of Togoland and the Cameroons. The Japanese demanded Chinese territory and a statement affirming racial equality, and while they didn’t get those things, they ended up receiving German assets in China’s Shantung province, including a port, railroads, mines, and submarine cables.The second critical limit of Wilson’s power was that he couldn’t control what the losers did.