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The mobilization of America for war was both an arduous and dispute ridden process. With many in the United States still opposed to intervention at the start of the war, financing it and managing it on a material level, as well as gaining public support for an overseas campaign were at the very least an impossibility. In the end, the task fell at the hands of the President, Woodrow Wilson First on task for Wilson …

…delegates allowed for efficiency and the sidestep of an inefficient and costly bureaucracy that would have crippled the American war effort. Finally, the intense spirit of the American public served to fire the nation onto the world stage and allow the nation to assert its true power. World War One could not have been won without the contributions of every American on the home front as well as those of the soldiers in the trenches.