De Lorenzo 1 James De Lorenzo Mr. Misurelli U.S History II B 3 March 2013 The Reasons why the US Entered WWI The First World War erupted on the 28th of July‚ 1914 with the assassination of the Austrian Archduke. This horrific war finally ended on November 11th‚ 1918. The United States didn’t officially enter the war until April 6th‚ 1917. The US entered during the middle of the war and endured the bloody conflict to the very end. Woodrow Wilson‚ the president of the US during
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World War I Webquest Historical Context: World War I was supposed to be the war that ended all wars. Instead it set the stage for future conflicts throughout the 20th Century. The people of the time called the conflict the Great War‚ and they believed that there would never again be another like it. Although the United States tried to remain neutral‚ it was eventually drawn into the conflict. The war had a profound effect on the nation‚ and touched upon many aspects of American life. When the
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Reconstruction and the Gilded Age (C) The industrialization movement in America was a very attractive incentive to migrate to the United States. “Record numbers of immigrants arrived in the United States‚ some 9 million from 1880 to 1900‚ and 13 million from 1900 to 1914” (1). Most people thought of the U.S. as a flagship for hope and economic gain. With the expansion of railroads‚ emergence of new technology‚ and vast supply of natural resources‚ opportunities were as high as ever. As cities populations
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and were untrustworthy. After the Germans agreed to not use unrestricted submarine warfare‚ and remained peaceful with the US‚ Germany tried to make allies with those who had bad relations ((())) with America‚ such as Mexico by sending the Zimmermann Telegram to Mexico on January 16‚ 1917. Although this didn’t cause a disturbance in the opinions of the citizens‚ it was starting to cause tension. . This shows how it was a good thing to join((()) the war because after the numerous amounts of warnings
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Analyse the Reasons for Germany’s defeat in World War I The war ended with the allies of Britain‚ France and Russia‚ finishing the war having succeeded. There were many reasons to why the Allies had won this war. Some of the reasons were the effects of the long time the war went over war on the German Economy‚ the Alliance Systems formed by the other nations‚ The Allied Naval Blockade on Germany‚ leaving them with no supplies to maintain a certain control over the nation‚ the development of the
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However‚ this changed when Germany sank the Lusitania‚ a British ocean liner. One-hundred twenty-eight Americans were killed in the sinking of the Lusitania. Also‚ the Zimmermann Telegram played an important part in the U.S joining the war. The telegram wanted Mexico to join the war‚ and also promised that Germany would help take back their land that America owned. American troops arrived in June 1917 at France and defended against German forces. The battle
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remain until the disintegration of late 1918. The U.S. joined‚ but not until the Zimmerman Telegram was sent. The Zimmerman telegram was a telegram sent from the Foreign Secretary of the German Empire name Arthur Zimmerman. The telegram stated that if the U.S. was to announce war on Mexico that they would declare war on the U.S. to distract them‚ and hopefully stop the United States from joining WWI. The telegram was intercepted by Great Britain and publicly announced in the U.S. which caused
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the neutrality. Wilson ended up winning the 1916 presidential election for a second term. On January 1917‚ British cryptographers deciphered a telegram from German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann to the German Minister to Mexico‚ Von Eckhardt which offered United States territory to Mexico in return for joining the German cause. This Zimmerman telegram‚ provoked both the public and the government‚ neutrality shifted against Germany and within a month America declared war on Germany and entered
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Why did Germany loose the WW1? Why did Germany loose The First World War? On 28 June 1914 a bullet change the tension in Europe for years and a World war broke out. Germany in the losing side together with especially Austria-Hungary but also Ottoman empire and Bulgaria against in the start the Triple Entente which included Russia‚ Britain and France who got support by other countries after a while but why did Germany loose the war? Well it’s hard to practically point one thing out and say this
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US Entry into WWI “The War was decided in the first twenty days of fighting‚ and all that happened afterwards consisted in battles which‚ however formidable and devastating‚ were but desperate and vain appeals against the decision of Fate.” The following statement was made by Winston Churchill (Prime Minister of Britain from 1940-45)‚ and truly shines some light on multiple aspects of the World War I. During the First World War‚ which occurred from 1914-1918 and involved the majority of the European
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