The war was declared off, and the populations of both countries returned to their tasks.
It was this renewal of peace that brought about the alliance between Germany and the United States.

In reality, this was an alliance between the Emperor and the Oligarchy, for the purpose of meeting their common foe, the revolutionary proletariat of both countries.

And it was this alliance that the Oligarchy afterward so treacherously broke when the German socialists rose and drove the war-lord from his throne.

It was the very thing the Oligarchy had played for--the destruction of its great rival in the world-market.

With the German Emperor out of the way, Germany would have no surplus to sell abroad.