How much of a role did the US play in the ending of World War I?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

It brought matters to a conclusion faster than would otherwise have been the case (six months? A year?) and so saved a considerable number of lives, both on the Western Front and also in Germany where the impact of the blockade on the civilian population was considerable. By the time the American reinforcements actually arrived, the lunatic gamble that was the Ludendorff Offensive was already being pushed back and from that defeat there could be no recovery, but there's a reason why it was launched when it was in the first place.