To the anonymous reviewer of George F. Kennan's book, Russia Leaves the War, who wrote in the Times Literary Supplement (London), January 4, 1957, this sentence: "We still do not know at any level that really matters, why Wilson took the fateful decision to bring the United States into the First World War, " I would like to say hello. Barbara Tuchman
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In the United States, most people learn about the war at high school. In England, however, high school students study World War I from the end of the Boer War in 1902 until the end of World War II in 1945. Their World War I course is a bit different from what we learned in high school and they tend to focus more on its causes and consequences than we did. For some reason, we Americans seem to have forgotten about this war and do not remember anything about it even though we fought in it.

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