The 4.7 Million Americans Who Served in WWI Now Have Their Own National Memorial in DC

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The American Expeditionary Force suffered 264,000 casualties during the war. It has been calculated that 112,432 Americans died. Of these, around 50 per cent died from disease (mainly from the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic). in this unnecessary US war. Had the US stayed out of WWI it would have ended six month to a year earlier because both side were spent, wanted to end the war.

Banker JP Morgan brokered a deal that positioned his company as the sole munitions and supplies purchaser during World War One for the British and French governments, bringing his company a 1 percent commission on $3 billion ($30 million). He was also a banking broker for financing to foreign governments both during and after the war. Following its outbreak of war, he made the first loan of $12,000,000 to Russia. In 1915, he loaned $500,000,000 to France and Britain.

Super-rich US bankers had huge economic investments with the British and French. If they were to lose, then they would not be able to pay back this debt (amounting to about $2 billion while Germany only borrowed a mere $27 million). France and England were financing their war with US loans. In addition, they were buying massive amounts of arms from the US on credit.

At the beginning of the World War One, the British press was reporting that German soldiers in Belgium were tossing Belgian babies into the air and catching them with their bayonets. These atrocity stories were then fed to newspapers, who were quite willing to publish them.

On April 13, 1917, President Wilson created the Committee on Public Information (CPI) (aka the Creel Commission) to promote the war domestically while publicizing American war aims abroad. Under the leadership of a muckraking journalist named George Creel, the CPI recruited heavily from business, media, academia, and the art world.

This “Committee of Public Information” used pamphlets, posters and news releases to sell the war to the public. The most effective PR technique was that Creel recruited over 70,000 volunteer prominent citizens across the nation to speak to large audiences in locations like churches and movie theaters.

With all the sophistication of a modern advertising agency, the CPI examined the different ways that information flowed to the population and flooded these channels with pro-war material. The CPI's domestic division was composed of 19 sub-divisions, and each focused on a particular type of propaganda, that is, the use of newspapers, academics, artists, filmmaking and even tracks inside workers payroll envelopes.
The CPI also created the Division of Syndicated Features and recruited the help of leading novelists, short story writers, and essayists. These popular American writers presented the official line in an easily digestible form, and their work was said to have reached twelve million people every month.

In 1917, J.P. Morgan, Warburg and Rockefeller learned that if they control 25 big US newspapers they could generally control the policy being reported by all daily press in the United States. So they bought these 25 newspapers and put editor in charge of them.

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Some Unpopular History of the United States

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