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What if the United States had Stayed Out of the Great War?
“America should have minded her own business and stayed out of the World War.”
“America should have minded her own business and stayed out of the World War”
Thus spoke British PM Winston Churchill to New York Enquirer publisher William Griffin in a 1936 interview.
Or so it is alleged.
Churchill went on to explain that British disasters at the Battle of the Somme, combined with the bloody German mire at Verdun, and the maddeningly inconclusive outcome of Jutland left the warring powers convinced that neither side could win a military victory. The United States (US) entry into the war assured an Allied victory, this was, if they could hold on long enough. Repelling the German offensives that came in the wake of the Congress’s declaration of war cost at least a million more soldiers killed in action who might otherwise have survived had a peace come in 1917.
Additionally, Churchill declared, there would have been no collapse of the Romanov and Hohenzollern monarchies, which led to Bolshevism and Nazism. Italy would have avoided the post-war economic and political crises that led to the Fascist takeover in 1922.
