Wasn’t it you who told me that when the United States entered World War I, it was practically over?  A character in a book I started reading, ‘We Shall Not Sleep’ by Anne Perry, makes a similar remark. I guess this author wrote a series of novels on World War I. The church book group is reading it.  The character also says that Wilson is imposing the harsh terms which will ineveitabily lead to another war.  I was listening to a book about the great Flu  epidemic of 1918 and it had some similar material about Wilson. I guess he was somewhat of a fundamentalist.

Tob Wanderfont

Yes, the US declared war on Germany in the spring of 1917, but it was 1918 before US troops got into combat, and the war ended in November 1918. I have read that the war was basically grinding to a halt, because Britain, France, Germany, and Austria-Hungary had eviscerated themselves fighting the war, and that a peace treaty of some sort was probably going to be the result. But then the US entered the war, tipping the balance in the Allies favor. Germany was forced to accept extremely harsh terms, and 21 years later we had WW2 as the result.