Of course it wasn’t the war to end all wars and it ended 2 years after we joined.

Via Business Insider:

The US joined World War I three years after it started, but there were few parts of the world that weren’t touched by the Great War.

The war started on July 28, 1914, just a month after Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife were gunned down on the streets of Sarajevo, Bosnia, by a Serbian nationalist.

The assassination, and the subsequent political and military upheavals, led to the start of World War I, which would eventually roil much of the globe.

Less than three bloody years later, the US would be drawn into the conflict on the side of the Allies, declaring war on the Central Powers on April 6, 1917.
It is hard to comprehend the breadth World War I.

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