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England definitely slowed Germany down but Germany was decidedly winning.

Prior to US involvement, the front line was quite close to Paris. After, it was just over the border of Germany, and then as you said, they knew it was over. US' involvement was huge.

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Britain. Along with contingents from most of its Empire.

(Saying "England" when you mean "Britain" is like saying "Texas" when you mean "U.S.A.")

It's said that the first shot fired by the British Empire in WW1 was from Fort Nepean, Australia.

Not during WW1 it wasn't, calling a Scotsman English wasn't an issue at the time.

Really? When did the Scots start to develop a notion of having a unique national character that made them non-English?

Well, obviously it was centuries ago but it has ebbed and flowed since then. For the 20th century though a lot of Scottish nationalism originated in the Scottish renaissance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Renaissance).

Serious question, what would be the analogous comparisons for "Great Britain" and "United Kingdom?"

Great Britain is the island. So an analogy would be North America and United States of America. Roughly of course.

I guess an analogous comparison would anything that forgets that Hawaii and/or Alaska exist when referring to the US.

No, the US broke a stalemate. The Germans were near Paris for most of the war - the location of Paris is what makes the Schieffen plan attractive. The US took a year or so to get onto a War production footing, but then her production started to force the issue. In combat, US helped to stem the German 1918 spring offensive, and were most decisive in the final offensive.

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