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THE U.S. ENTERS WWI

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Page 1: 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?

THE U.S. ENTERS WWI

Page 2: 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?

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!)