100 years ago today, the USA declared war on Germany, starting WW1

Why was Woodrow such a dick with the conditions to stay out of the war? he kept asking for retarded shit like "don't touch ships with americans in it!" while the americans were going on armed ships carrying resources for britain

They call that "strategy."

so he was just another fag trying to get in the war at the end?

here's an easy one that the germans ignored, "don't shoot american ships"

*ships British war materials on American ships*
nothin personell kiddo... don't shoot our ships....

It was intentional, just like the Serbian ultimatum. They handed them an ultimatum they couldn't accept such as to get into the war while saying "We tried" to make it more palatable to the public.

Wilson, despite his anti-war rhetoric, had been trying to get into the war for years. He didn't have a public outcry large enough to do so until 1917.

It was a war zone. Everyone had been warned. Germany even took out a full-page ad in the NYT every day from the beginning of the U-boat blockade that ships will be inspected and sunk if found carrying contraband materials. People did it anyways because it was good money.

>why are they shooting us? we are just giving britain more shit to keep the war going!!

I hope they like an assured loss

It wasn't relevant before America joined.

It wasn't necessarily assured, even after American entry. The Spring Offensive has a reasonable chance of succeeding in any other timeline. Keep in mind just how close Germany was to succeeding even WITH the rapid influx of American materiel and money.

everyone felt that with just one more frontal assault™ they would win the war

Yeah, well, when you're close enough to Paris to hit it with artillery, that one frontal assault is pretty fucking good idea.

Yanks always turn up late for a fight.

there was nothing more sensible than staying out of the great war, the hotheads of europe would have done well to follow suit

Is anyone actually knowledgeable about the US Army's six months in western Europe? I know that they suffered some 287,000 casualties there, but can someone please tell me exactly where? In the Hundred Days Offensive (i.e. St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne), they had 130,000 casualties. In the Second Battle of the Marne, 12,000. Then Belleau Wood and Cantigny add another 9,800 and 1,600 respectively.

But that's barely half of their casualties. Where did the other ones come from? What other heavy fighting were they involved in? Did they seriously suffer 150,000+ casualties in the Spring Offensive?

I would guess that most of them came from small skirmishes and maybe the minority divisions that were given to the French. You also have to take into account casualties from potshots. All armies were bleeding soldiers here and there from errant artillery shots, snipers, falling into a mud hole and not being able to get out, etc.

"WHEREAS, The Imperial German Government has committed repeated acts of war against the people of the United States of America; therefore, be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the state of war between the United States and the Imperial German Government, which has thus been thrust upon the United States, is hereby formally declared; and that the President be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to employ the entire naval and military forces of the United States and the resources of the Government to carry on war against the Imperial German Government; and to bring the conflict to a successful termination all the resources of the country are hereby pledged by the Congress of the United States."

Well Veeky Forums, was America right to get involved? Was the Zimmerman telegram a false flag? Where we duped by the British (who monitored all trans Atlantic communication and controlled the content)? Or was it just a simple manner of making sure the entente was victorious so they could pay back their loans?

This is true, but the French army faced a bad breakout of socialist mutinies in 1917, and the British were legitimately *deeply concerned* that the unrestricted warfare would be debilitating to their war effort. You take away the hope of American men and materiel coming to save the day, and the Kaiserschlacht offensive takes on a much more ominous tone, possibly even leading to a white peace.

>Where did the other ones come from?
Spanish flu.

These are specially battle casualties, i.e. not counting the Spanish flu.

Couldn't give a shit about the British but we had to do it to save France from Prussian barbarism

Not according to DCAS.

dmdc.osd.mil/dcas/pages/report_principal_wars.xhtml

Turn to WWI.

>none of you plebs watched lusitania

reminded me of this
youtu.be/hLv4afpovvA?t=1m10s

Has anyone been playing Kaiserreich for Hearts of Iron?

>HoY instead of DH
For what purpose. No real reason to play HoYKR over DHKR until KR is finally fleshed out properly.

>battle deaths 53,402
>wounds 204,002
>POWs 4,500

Thats a total of 262,304 casualties and leaves a question of over a hundred thousand with the Hundred Days and Second Marne being accounted for.

They aren't all battle casualties, though. The only thing we can be certain about is battle deaths.

Youtube comments are the most convincing argument for sterilization.

Germany was already losing, in no small part due to Britain & France being bankrolled by America while Germany was under blockade.

The German leadership's view was that the US was not really neutral anyway and direct American involvement would be an acceptable price to pay if they could strangle the Atlantic

A "wound" is by definition a battle casualty. Accidental injuries and sickness are listed on separate documents. The British Army on the Western Front for example had over 3.7 million men hospitalized for sickness, but these don't show up on the usual casualty rolls, which just show about 1.5 million wounded total.

>A "wound" is by definition a battle casualty
No, it isn't. Not before WWII it wasn't, at least in the U.S.

WOW!
Sorry, but you say that on Veeky Forums of all sites?

The Argonne remembers

In colour

youtube.com/watch?v=MlA0PJyl0Eg

I love this scene from Boardwalk Empire, before it went to shit

youtube.com/watch?v=ZDMQuAxAYYs

I thought boardwalk empire was a fashion show

yeah, it stars that silver haired faggot right?

Karl Lagerfeld?

You're just wrong dude. The US Army released the document "The war with Germany: a statistical summary" soon after the war ended containing a detailed casualty roll. The sick and injured were listed separately from the wounded. As for specifically battle casualties:

>Killed in action 34,180
>Died of wounds 14, 729
>Wounded severely 80,130
>Wounded slightly 110,544
>Wounded, degree undetermined 39,400
>Missing in action 2,913
>Taken prisoner 4,434
>TOTAL: 286,330

For a transcribed version of the relevant pages, see:

vlib.us/medical/stats/statsus.htm

The French mutinies and poor morale were largely solved by reforms and promises. Without the Americans coming and the need for a swift end to the war for the Germans the Kaiserschlacht would likely not have taken the form it did too. The Germans would probably have gambled their troops away less heavily, but even if it were the same the offensive petered out before Americans were on the front in appreciable numbers. Also the conditions in favour of the entente such as the naval blockade would still be eroding morale on the German home front.

Anyone have that account of some British or French soldier taking a mask from some wounded guy because theirs got punctured? Can't find it for the life of me.

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why does the presenter of great war look very ill

>starting WW1
>starting