Why Should The United States Join World War I?

United States congress decided to join World War I due to the German U-boat sinking the British Lusitania which killed 1,198 civilians including 129 Americans. The Zimmerman Telegram was when Germany formed an alliance with Mexico promising their lost land which was taken from the US back as their territory. Woodrow Wilson, the American president in 1913 encouraged our entry into World War I believing it would make the world safe for democracy. Many people of America followed his voice except the Socialist Party who opposed American entry into war. The Socialist Party called the entry into war "a crime against the people of the United States". According to Eugene V. Debs speech which was delivered in Canton, Ohio on June 16, 1918, Socialists opposed the war not because they were pro-German, but because they were anti-capitalist. Capitalism is the social system which means to become an industrialist however, it comes along with other negative connotation for the people. The speech given by Eugene V. Debs precipitated in
The people are to believe that when the capitalist declared war upon one another, it was their patriotic duty to cut one another's throats for the profit and glory of the rulers. To what does the working class gain? Nothing. The capitalist class have always declared the wars meanwhile the working class always fought the battles. The capitalist class has had all to gain and nothing to lose. The cost was far higher than Americans anticipated, with more than a hundred thousand American soldiers dead. This capitalist class who tells the working class that we are fighting this war to make the world safe for democracy, shuts out all humanity from his private territory which is why I agree with Eugene V. Debs. The capitalist profiteers at the expense of the people who have been killed and disfigured, under the deception of being the great Americans