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To: Bilow who wrote (76499)	2/23/2003 3:04:35 AM
From: Jacob Snyder	Respond to of 281500

re: end of WW1: You sure do know your history. Interesting links. "Near collapse" is, you're right, too strong a term. "Unable to take offensive action" would be more accurate. The data you present, show that major U.S. ground forces were first committed in June/July 1918. Up to that precise time, the British and French gave ground. After that, the Germans gave ground. From 1914 through to June 1918, the Germans had defeated the repeated maximum efforts by the Allies, to push them out of France. The French tried over and over, and never achieved better than a stalemate. And it wasn't just the 2M American troops in France that saved the Allies. Before that, it was our navy that broke the German blockade of England. We were actually in a naval war, well before the official declaration. <By late 1917, the German economy was dead and people were beginning to starve> But then they made a deal with Lenin, giving them access to huge territories (Ukraine, etc.) that produced lots of food and raw materials.