Us Involvement In Ww1

The United States in World War I
On April 6th, 1917, a hundred years ago, the United States of America formally declared war on Germany and joined the Allies, formed by Britain, Russia, and France to fight the Central Powers consisted of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Bulgaria, in a war that became known as the World War I, but at the time was known as The Great War.
During most of World War I, which started on July 28 of 1914 after the assassination of Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand by Serbian Gavrilo Princip, the United States maintained an isolationist stance. Unlike the Europeans who preferred war as a solution, the US believed that all imperialists had equal rights in the exploitation of Afro-Asian territories (Michael Neiberg, “What

The Germans began to attack vessels that supplied food and weapons to England, and in this tactic, the Germans eventually destroyed American ships, most notably the passenger ship Lusitania in 1915, killing 1,201 people, including 128 Americans. Even that did not cause the United States to enter the war. President Woodrow Wilson had been elected with the slogan “He Kept Us Out of War”, and wanted to remain neutral. On March 1, 1917, however, the Zimmermann Telegram, which contained a message from the German Foreign Minister to his ambassador to Mexico proposing an alliance between the two countries in the case of a war between the United States and Germany, is published in the first pages of major US

Each involved country played an important role in winning the war for the Allies. In fact, the US military was not that well trained and prepared to fight the war, with many of the men being inexperienced, and it required training from French and British officials. The enthusiasm with which the soldiers fought, for a cause that they knew was greater than themselves, was what won the war for Britain, France, Russia, and the United States. According to the US Department of Veterans Affairs, the American casualties during the War totaled approximately 116