Kerrinsky suceeds: effect on US culture

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I really think you know enough for you to know this is wrong. DuPont alone took $55 million for gunpowder sales (unless we're now claiming explosives are a raw material). A Financial History of the United States, at 75.

Or here's America's Great War, at 30:

"Morgan soon became the world's largest purchaser of goods, about 60 percent of which were arms and munitions and the remainder of which were foodstuffs... By the Battle of the Somme in 1916, US firms were supplying Britain with three quarters of its light artillery shells.".

Honestly, given your previous claims, this should be pretty obvious. You've gone on at length about how essential American credit was to Britain. But why would British credit matter? Because it was buying war material and resources from America.

Why would anyone give up just because Russia's folded? The Americans are coming, and a stable Kerensky is waiting in the wings to rejoin the war if things look bad for Germany.

Okay the US produced shells and explosives. 75% of the tanks, airplanes, artillery, and MGs were French made:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Expeditionary_Forces
The AEF used French and British equipment. Particularly appreciated were the French canon de 75 modèle 1897, the canon de 155 C modèle 1917 Schneider and the canon de 155mm GPF. American aviation units received the SPAD XIII and Nieuport 28 fighters and the US tank corps used the French Renault FT light tanks.
 
Can you go to anything other than Wikipedia? There is a lot on anti-Semitism in the Third Reich you could be digging into.
 

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Can you go to anything other than Wikipedia? There is a lot on anti-Semitism in the Third Reich you could be digging into.
Unfortunately its the most readily accessible thing to quote online. I don't have the patience to transcribe passages from books. If you have other sources you want to quote from go right ahead.

http://www.amazon.com/The-German-Problem-Reconsidered-Germany/dp/0521299667
This book gets into the continuity of Hitler and anti-semitism in German politics and how the situation after WW1 was directly related to the Spartakist Revolt and the rise of the USSR, but also how much anti-semitism wasn't really a factor for the majority of the German people other than some prejudice interpersonally. Much like how racism toward black people in the US wasn't a driving factor for a majority of the voters in the US, it was certainly for some, but its not something most people voted for to the exclusion of all other factors.
 
Okay the US produced shells and explosives. 75% of the tanks, airplanes, artillery, and MGs were French made:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Expeditionary_Forces

Sigh. Yes, because factories were already producing this, and because the equipment was already in use. As Race to the Front puts it on page 128, "America agreed to provide France with 350,000 tons of raw material necessary to manufacture the shells and field guns used by the AEF."

And given the increases in American production and the arrival of American men, which everyone knew was coming in 1918, why would the Allies give up?
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Sigh. Yes, because factories were already producing this, and because the equipment was already in use. As Race to the Front puts it on page 128, "America agreed to provide France with 350,000 tons of raw material necessary to manufacture the shells and field guns used by the AEF."

And given the increases in American production and the arrival of American men, which everyone knew was coming in 1918, why would the Allies give up?
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So you're backing up my point that the US provided raw materials, not finished weapons.
Because they could lose on the battlefield before then, the British could be forced to withdraw from the continent and Germany fight and defeat the French on their own and take France. That's the entire thesis from General David Zabecki, who does have a point when you check the sources he used. The British official history talked about the Allies quitting if Amiens were lost because of the horrible political and military consequences of British supply lines in Flanders being cut.
http://www.amazon.com/German-1918-O...=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1219499286&sr=1-2
 
There seems to be a bit of Anti-German bigotry on this thread. A feeling that Germany was doomed to have a murderous, insane cult-like government ruling it after WWI no matter what happened.
 
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