The U.S. enters World War I

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1. How did the United States raise an army?
They passed the Selective Service Act, which required men to register with government in order to be randomly selected for military service.

2. How did U.S. soldiers help win the war?

3. What were the estimated economic costs of the war?
About $338 billion.

4. What did the war cost in terms of the number of civilian deaths; military deaths?; injuries?; and refugees?
22 million deaths and civilians were more than half of them, 110,000 military deaths (48,ooo in battle & 62,000 from disease), more than 200,000 were wounded, and 10 million became refugees.

5. Define armistice.
Truce.