freeman3
Do you not really read what other people write? I dont know where you are getting that 500,000 figure, anyway. There were two million American troops in France by the end.
I do.
At the time of the Meusse Argonne offensive. There were 2,000,000 US in France. 1,000,000 in camps. 500,000 in transit or rear echelon.
And 500,000 in the front lines actually involved in combat and part of the Meusse Argonne offensive. Do you dispute that? I have linked you to sources.
freeman3
The French mutinied in 1917 against attacking any longer.
And yet after that the French DID attack on a great many occasions.
During the summer of 1918, after the decisive defeat of the Germans at the second Battle of the Marne, Foch ordered an offensive against Amiens. Some French units participated in this battle. Then, a general offensive was launched against the German positions in France. The French First Army helped the British troops in the north, while eight French field armies formed the center of the offensive. An additional army was sent to help the Americans. The French forces were the most numerous of all the allied troops.
Including as the majority force in the Meusse Argonne offensive and all along the western front . (I'm repeating myself here, I know. But then you aren't acknowledging any of these facts and keep making the same claims without support.
Freeman3
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And you still think that they could have pushed Germany back without American help?
The Germans were starving Freeman. They had mobilized the old and the very young. They had no more reserves. . When their last offensive stalled, they were done for... Austria was done, there was nothing to stop its capture, and two provinces of Greater Germany switched sides..
There was no question of them winning, and little chance they could defend a determined push. The Hundred days took place across most of the Western front, not just the Meusse Argonne...Most of it could still have occurred without the 500,000 Americans. And it would have been just as successful.
There might have been a different peace settlement if not for American involvement, because the active participation of half a million US troops, and the presence of another 1.5 million made clear the outcome and the futility of continuing... So a complete capitulation versus a more negotiated peace were the outcome. (And maybe the former might have been preferred in retrospect)
freeman3
You dont always have great choices to make in life. How do you think Central and South America would look if it became all communist?
Who says it would have become Communist? And if free and democratic elections had chosen socialism or communism .... why couldn't that decision be allowed to stand?
The United States� interventions in Central America have ranged from creating and arming right-wing death squads to propping up some of history's most bloody dictatorships. The United States has over and over again put its ideals before the lives and well-being of the various peoples living throughout Central America, and because of that, much of the history of Central America has been that of violence, civil wars, and revolts.
Here's the result of those decades of support for dictators and military juntas...
.The vast majority of Central Americans today live in perpetual misery alongside tiny elites that enjoy unparalleled prosperity. The average cat in [the U.S.] eats more beef than the average Central American. In Nicaragua, 54 percent of the people have no safe drinking water. In Guatemala, 44 percent are illiterate, and Indians, who constitute half of the country's population, have an average life-span of forty-eight years. Seven out of ten Hondurans live in desperate poverty, only one rural resident in ten has electricity, and less than two in ten have access to safe drinking water. Infant mortality was seventy per 1,000 births in 1990, compared to less than nine per 1,000 in the United States."
- from the chapter "Central Americans: Intervention Comes Home to Roost" in Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America by Juan Gonzalez
http://www.umich.edu/~ac213/student_pro ... a/main.htm