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I wouldn’t say nothing. Before the US entered the war, it was looking like the Central Powers were gonna win. England and France had a ton of loans outstanding with the US in order to finance the war effort. Had they lost to Germany, then those loans would have never gotten paid. So those red-blooded Americans died for a good cause - making sure American capital didn’t lose that money.
anyone who wants to learn more on this check out the Nye Committee, officially known as the Special Committee on Investigation of the Munitions Industry
The Central Powers were also assholes. Germany invaded neutral countries (one of the reasons the war kept escalating), there was the Armenian Genocide conducted by the Ottomans, and they were the first to use chemical weapons and mostly against civilians.
Of course, the Entente was in it for imperialism as they would divide the carcasses of their enemies between themselves. The US was no different. I can see how people could draw conclusions about involvement in WWI as justified, but those justifications go out the window once you look at what happened post-war. It becomes obvious the entire conflict was a meaningless slaughter all so bourgeois could eradicate what was left of the nobility, then take their place as the boot stepping on the proletariat.
The sad thing is, the american populace far and away saw the actual reason the Entente was involved. Before, during, and after American involvement.
For sure. But like WW2 they could fool themselves that it was about fighting evil, WWI England could say it was about fighting for Belgium at that was at least true if not missing the entire context prior to that, Russia in WW1 could say it was about supporting their fellow Slavs which was something their success would have accomplished if things went well. There was nothing tangible for american troops. The most we got was the Zimmerman Telegram