# Would the world really be that different now if the US had lost the Revolutionary War?

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**Author:** ![Blake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@Blake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blake)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-world-really-be-that-different-now-if-the-us-had-lost-the-revolutionary-war/683181/21 "2014-03-09T21:58:19Z")

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> [@Stringbean](#):
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> America had virtually nothing to do with WW1. I’m not sure how the timeline changes so dramatically–Germany was going to fight long and hard no matter what.

Did you actually \*read \*the post you quoted? :dubious:

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2014, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-world-really-be-that-different-now-if-the-us-had-lost-the-revolutionary-war/683181/22 "2014-03-10T00:24:22Z")

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Louis XVI decided to call a new Estates-General (the first in 175 years) to discuss new tax policy because the American adventure had been such a strain on his treasury; sensible idea, but then it got out of hand.

If the American Revolution is put down before the French invest a lot of money in it, then the French Revolution is averted or at least delayed, and, being delayed, almost certainly plays out differently; either way, the whole course of European history plays out differently.

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