I assume you mean WWI as there were only two. In WWI Americans participated. Many of the able men went to war. While the women, children, and disabled stayed and helped with the war effort. Most of the effort back home was from the women.
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The immediate cause for the speech was a recent announcement by the British Government that, as of March 31, it would no longer provide military and economic assistance to the Greek Government in its civil war against the Greek Communist Party.
