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Would the Germany have lost the Spring Offensive with America out of the war?
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DIdn't you say that the offensive was lost since the beginning?
I don't think it was lost since the beginning, however it had small chances of success.
However, with Americans in or out the war it wouldn't have made that much of a difference. The Allied morale was low then —even with the Yanks at the rear learning what the heck a trench was— but they resisted and stopped the Germans.
French, British and Dominion troops were not literally starving and their domestic front was not about to collapse.
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(Which in the beginning it most definitely was not, the US had to borrow other Allies weapons to arm their soldiers in the first phase of US involvement)
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Correction. Not in the early neither in the last phase of US involvement they were ready for war. 90% of their machine guns, artillery, ammunition, helmets, planes and tanks were supplied by France and Great Britain.
Its contribution to war was almost insignificant. A complete total-war economy would have been achieved until mid-1919 in the US... They only provided the moeny to keep France and Great Britain's war ecomomies going... —the US' main and most significant contribution to Allied victory.
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Without this tremendous boost of morale, it is possible the Germans could've made a breakthrough during Ludendorf's offensives
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Stil have many doubts about this...
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if the Allies had won without US support, Europe would have entered soemthing like the Great Depression immediately following World War I.
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Actually, inflation and unemployment immediately after WWI did cause a severe depression in Europe. US loans during and after WWI prevented even worse consequences.