Boy was I surprized how little I knew!!!

rolandtg · 03-31-2014, 10:25 PM

WWI bankrupted the great European powers.
We got all their gold.
That allowed for the US fully emerge after the war as a full-fledged equal for the first time.

Wilson was ill with what has been speculated to be the Spanish flu during much of the post-war negotiations.
It has also been speculated that if he had been able to be more active in drafting the Treaty of Versailles that Germany might not been subjected to such harsh reparations.
Which of course might have prevented WWII.. Maybe..

In many way WWI shaped the rest of the 20th century more than even WWII.

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03-31-2014, 10:25 PM	#2
rolandtg User Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Texas Hill Country Posts: 479 Thanks: 389 Thanked 265 Times in 114 Posts	WWI bankrupted the great European powers. We got all their gold. That allowed for the US fully emerge after the war as a full-fledged equal for the first time. Wilson was ill with what has been speculated to be the Spanish flu during much of the post-war negotiations. It has also been speculated that if he had been able to be more active in drafting the Treaty of Versailles that Germany might not been subjected to such harsh reparations. Which of course might have prevented WWII.. Maybe.. In many way WWI shaped the rest of the 20th century more than even WWII.