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The U.S. made its major contributions in terms of supplies, raw material, and money, starting in 1917. American soldiers under General of the Armies John Pershing, Commander-in-Chief of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF), arrived at the rate of 10,000 soldiers a day on the Western Front in the summer of 1918.
Nothing Less Than War: A New History of America's Entry into World War I (2011) 433 pages; comprehensive history ISBN 978-0-8131-3002-6 OCLC 682895305; Esposito, David M. The Legacy of Woodrow Wilson: American War Aims in World War I. (Praeger, 1996) 159pp ISBN 0-275-95493-5 OCLC 33244422
The contribution made by American troops in the Aisne-Marne Offensive gave Pershing an opportunity to press again for the formation of an independent American army. Preliminary steps in the organization of the American First Army had been taken in early July 1918.
Women in America during, World War I, performing farm labor to address the food shortages. During WWI (1914-1918), large numbers of women were recruited into jobs that had either been vacated by men who had gone to fight in the war, or had been created as part of the war effort.
The American Immigration Act of 1924 limited immigration from countries where 2% of the total U.S. population, per the 1890 census (not counting African Americans), were immigrants from that country. Thus, the massive influx of Europeans that had come to America during the first two decades of the century slowed to a trickle.
The Oxford History of the American People. New York: Oxford University Press. Niblack, Albert P. (2018). Putting Cargoes Through: The U.S. Navy at Gibraltar during the First World War, edited with an Introduction by John B. Hattendorf. Gibraltar: Calpe Press. ISBN 978-1-919665-10-8. Reynolds, Clark G. (1978). Famous American Admirals. Annapolis ...
The American Expeditionary Forces marching in France. V Corps was organized over the period 7–12 July 1918 in France as a Regular Army formation within the American Expeditionary Forces. By the end of World War I, the corps had fought in three named campaigns: the Battle of Saint-Mihiel, the Meuse–Argonne Offensive, and the Lorraine Campaign.
Over Here: The First World War and American Society (1982), covers politics & economics & society [ISBN missing] Koistinen, Paul. Mobilizing for Modern War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1865–1919 (1997) May, Ernest R. The World War and American isolation, 1914–1917 (1959) online at ACLS e-books; Scott, Emmett Jay.