Snake Featherston
Banned
Actually, the US funding was mainly to supply dollars so that the DEntente Governments could pay the bills in Dollars as required by the contracts.
It is a common misconception that a loan in one currency = no cash.
However, without those loans, they would only be able to purchase from the US according to their own dollar currency generation, which is a very different position.
And which puts them in a hell of a fix the longer the war goes on in 1916 with no end in sight. That would give a very different nature to Verdun and the Somme. If the war ends then, it would also end on the ironic note that the only Ally to actually do *something* effective would be Tsarist Russia.