War To End All War Essay

“The War to End All Wars” was erupted in 1914 with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand Archduke of Austria-Hungary. The war quickly consumed many countries, with Germany, Austria-Hungry, Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria making the Central Powers, vs France, Great Britain, Russia, Italy, and later the United States making up the Allied Powers. Originally the United States under President Woodrow Wilson was neutral and wanted to stay out of the war since it was in Europe. However, on April 6, 1917 America declared war on Germany, thus entering it into WWI. The Zimmerman Telegram led to the United States’ declaration of war, which made the United States’ involvement in the war just, and the results of United States joining the war in 1917 was the victory in Battle of Meuse-Argonne and the end of the war in 1918. When the war in Europe began the President of the United States Woodrow Wilson desired to stay neutral. “Both the Allied and Central Powers hoped to gain advantage over the other by controlling America’s trade relationships. Britain, who controlled the span of the North Atlantic Ocean, refused to allow American goods to be shipped to Germany and declared all cargo in neutral waters to be contraband. Britain then began seizing U.S. goods” (Aboukhadijeh). Britain also throttled the United States’ trade with Germany, by seizing American ships going to Germany, which led to the United States giving up on
When the American soldiers broke through the heavily fortified defenses in the Argonne Forest the Germans knew it was over and signed the Armistice of 11 November 1918. None of that would have happened in the time frame that it did if it wasn’t for the United States justly joining the war in 1917, because of the Zimmerman