American Entry into World War I

Goldman points out that the Senate Special commissioning Investigating the Munitions Industry (the Nye Committee) "of the mid-Thirties gave great vogue to the blood that the United States was pushed into World War I by stingy businessmen." During the early months of the fight, according to Tansill, Great Britain and France faced "a egregious deficiency in explosive artillery and in high gear explosive shells." As the fighting intensified, that dependence grew. According to Ferrell, issue forth the Statesn trade with the Allies increased between 1914 and 1916 from $754 one thousand thousand to $2.7 one thousand thousand. As a result of the British blockade of Germany, American trade to Germany sharply declined. The flood of more than one billion dollars' worth of Allied warfare orders filled American blazon factories and shipyards, swelled American profits and created a wartime boom. Ferrell said that the "war hastened London's decline as the world's financial center, its place taken by New York."

In the 1930s, the Nye Committee and revisionist authors stressed the im

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portance of these economic factors as the primary cause of America's entry into the war. Most subsequent historians stupefy disagreed. However, Tansill in 1938 said that "there is not the slightest evidence that [in decision making to go to war] the President gave any heed to demands by 'big business' that America intervened to save investments that were threatened by possible Allied defeat," notwithstanding he acknowledged "American economic solidarity with the Allies." DeWeerd said that "war orders . . . caused us to favor Britain and France . . . but one aspect of the obscure process of how the United States entered World War I."

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