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THE U.S. ENTERS WWI
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Quickwrite• What events caused the U.S. to enter the war?
• Why did the U.S. enter on the side of the Allies and NOT on the side of the Central Powers?
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At first…many Americans DID NOT
want to enter into the war.
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Still…Most
Americans weren’t
truly “neutral in thought as well as in action”
WHY!?
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American Positions
Goals
Isolationists
Interventionists
Internationalists
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British Naval Blockade
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German U-boat Warfare
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Convoy System
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Great Britain
France
Germany
Aus-Hungary
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Sinking of the
Lusitania
Why did Germany violate its
promise to spare unarmed ships even at the risk of drawing the
U.S. into the war?
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Zimmerman Note
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What other factors got the U.S. involved with the war?
Germans resumed unrestricted sub warfare
Wilson’s promise for a “Peace without victory… a peace among equals.”
Russians overthrew their Czarmade this a war of democracies
versus monarchies (little did we know that Russia would become Communist!)