<span>American troops helped turn the tide of the war. Once Russia dropped out of the war in 1917 because of the Bolshevik Revolution, the Germans were able to push all of their soldiers from the Eastern Front to the exhausted Western Front where they faced decimated French and British troops. However, the timely arrival of the American Expeditionary Force under the leadership of John J. Pershing, the Allies, including America, were able to turn the tide and push the Germans back from the Western Front.</span>
No, because there would not have been a larger rush to finish the project
Fifteen years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, "U.S.-Russia relations are clearly headed in the wrong direction," finds an Independent Task Force on U.S. policy toward Russia sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations. "Contention is crowding out consensus. The very idea of a 'strategic partnership' no longer seems realistic," it concludes.
