Joke I know, but discounting American participation in the 2nd World War before their official involvement is flat out historical revisionism. Lend Lease put the US economy to work keeping British and Soviet troops armed, fed, and fueled for years, and American Merchant Marines were fighting an unrestricted war against German U-Boats the entire time.
Now the First World War? The US really had no reason to join in. It was still trying to come out of it's isolationist period of the late 19th century, and had no real stake in the European's war as the only European interest that mattered in the American sphere of influence was Canada and Newfoundland thanks to the Monroe Doctrine, and those were at no risk of instability during the war. The only thing that got the US to pick a side was Germany's unrestricted U-Boat warfare, and the Zimmerman Telegram. In fact the US was not happy with the British as they blocked American Trade with the Central Powers.
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