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World War 1 began with Austria-Hungary declaring war on Serbia due to a conflict about murder of members of the royal family in Austria-Hungary. Serbia and Austria-Hungary both had different allies that joined the war shortly after. France, Russia, Britain and Canada joined Serbia in the war, and Germany joined Austria-Hungary. The United States declared that they would remain neutral in the war, a decision that most Americans supported. In early 1915, Germany declared that they were going to begin unrestricted submarine warfare, because they were trying to starve Britain of their resources. Unrestricted submarine warfare would involve torpedoing any ship that is sailing on the Allies territory. Germany had warned the United States that any of their ships travelling on British territory were doing so at their own risk. On May 1st, 1915, the RMS Lusitania set sail on its 101st journey from New York to Britain carrying 1,959 people and 173 tons of war munitions. Britain …show more content…

declaring war on Germany. Germany apologized to the United States for the sinking of the Lusitania, and pledged to end unrestricted submarine warfare. However, just 6 months later, a German U-boat sunk an Italian ship without warning. Over 270 people were killed, with more than 25 of them being American. Many people in the United States were starting to dislike Germany. In January 1917, Germany was desperate for a quick win in the war, and were ready to resume unrestricted submarine warfare, the only negative was that they suspected it would cause the United States to join the war. Nevertheless, Germany announced it was going to resume unrestricted submarine warfare against the Allies. Three days later, the United States ended all diplomatic relations with Germany, and just hours after this, an American ship was sunk by a German

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Trade with Germany fell to less than 1% than it previously did.4. The U.S traded with the Allies massive amounts of munitions and went to great extents to do so. The U.S sent many of their trades with ships that contained innocent civilians in attempt to cover up their intentions. When Germany shot down ships that contained munitions the innocent Americans were killed. This set an uproar within the country and blamed Germany.

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In February 1915, Germany announced unrestricted warfare against any ship entering the war zone around Britain. One month later and American merchant vessel was sunk while transporting grain to England & Germany apologized calling the incident an unfortunate mistake. In May 1915, a British owned ocean liner, the Lusitania, was attacked killing approximately 2000 passengers, including 128 Americans. After this incident, the United States demanded an end to attacks on non-military vessels. Finally, Woodrow Wilson threatened to cut off diplomatic ties with Germany after the sinking of an unarmed French ship, the Sussex, in March 1916.

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While the United States proclaimed itself as a neutral country in the beginning of the devastating first World War, many disagree with the statement that America wanted to remain neutral for various reasons. World War I began with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, then quickly escalated to division into two sides between European countries; including the Allied Powers, which consisted of Britain, France, Russia, Italy, and the Central Powers that included Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria. Since the United States made it obvious they favored the Allied Powers before they entered World War I, the other countries against these nations took this friendliness between the countries and America as a threat and interference of war. This resulted in the Central Powers noticing an unfair disadvantage for themselves.

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During World War I, the Germans use a fighting tactic called Unrestricted Submarine Warfare. German U-Boats, or submarines, were told to sink any ship that posed a threat, passenger or cargo, it did not matter. In a newspaper article it shows that the Lusitania was a passenger boat going from the coast of New York to Ireland that was sunk by a German submarine (“Lusitania”). The fact that Germany sunk a passenger ship without reason infuriated the Americans. As the political cartoon by Matthew Bollinger shows, President Woodrow Wilson is holding a piece of paper that says that American lives were lost on the sinking of this ship (Bollinger).

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Japanese warplanes attacked the American base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Then on December 11, the U.S. and congress declared war on Germany and Italy after they decided to declared war on the U.S. In WWI Pres. Wilson decided to enter the war because of Russia’s withdrawal from the war. Since the Russian people overthrew the monarchy and established a temporary government that promised free election.

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What happened during this event was in August 19, 1915, during the first world war, an engagement between a British warship, the HMS Baralong and a German submarine also known as a U-boat took place. The HMS Baralong war classified as a “Special Service Vessel” (also known as a Q-ship). Q-ships are designed as decoys to draw out enemy submarines in order to engage and hopefully sink the ship. The HMS Baralong was successful two times while it was active. The successful mission was on August 19, 1915 which was when a war crime was committed.

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By doing this, the Germans killed many Americans unjustly. If the U.S didn 't do anything, then the Germans would 've kept sinking more ships and killing the Americans that were onboard. Also, the Allies were losing the war. The soldiers were exhausted from all the years of fighting (trench warfare), it took a long time to even advance.

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The Imperial German Government’s purpose was to put aside all restraints of law or of humanity and use it’s submarines to sink every vessel. “The present German submarine warfare against commerce is a warfare against mankind,” Woodrow Wilson mentioned in his speech. This speech was monumental because it convinced American citizens entry into the war was necessary, brought America into a devastating war, probed America was a power of the world, brought women into workplaces, and it pushed for women’s suffrage. Not every

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As Germany returns, in 1917, to the policy of unrestricted submarine warfare, it came back to renew its suspension in response from force of the United States and other neutral countries. Unrestricted submarine warfare was first initiated in World War I on February 4th, 1915. Germany declared the area around the British Isles a war zone, in which all merchant ships, would be attacked by the German navy. On April 22nd, 1915, the German Embassy published a warning in newspapers to tell passengers that travel on Allied ships are “at their own risk.” One ship, called The Lusitania, was the first to submerge and depart, killing nearly 1300 passengers.

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This was because, over the course of the war, Germany began to further attack the Allied Powers including France and Britain. However, Zimmerman Note was the main reason why the number of exports increased or decreased the way that they did. In 1915, Germany began unrestricted submarine warfare. After Germany realized that this could cause America to go to war with them, they decided to send Mexico a telegram. It said that if Mexico to help them if America decided to go to war on the side of the Allies, Germany would then help Mexico regain lost land such as New Mexico(5).

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The reason the U.S.A went into WW1 wars because a German U-boat sunk one of our ships. This was an attack on the U.S and we were not going to

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World War 1 started on July 28, 1914 when Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir of the Austria-Hungrian throne got assassinated by Gavrilo Princip, a member of the Black Hand. The Black Hand is a group who opposed Austria-Hungary taking over Bosnia. Austria-Hungary blamed Serbia for the assassination which made Serbia go to war against them. France and Russia accepted to help Serbia which made Germany go to war with Russia for sending troops to its border on August 1, 1914. Three days later Germany declared war on France and invaded Belgium to get there.

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Germany was the first country to employ submarines in war as substitutes for surface commerce raiders. At the outset of World War I, German U-boats, though numbering only 38, achieved notable successes against British warships; but because of the reactions of neutral powers (especially the United States) Germany hesitated before adopting unrestricted U-boat warfare against merchant ships. The decision to do so in February 1917 was largely responsible for the entry of the United States into the war. The U-boat campaign then became a race between German sinkings of merchant ships and the building of ships, mainly in the United States, to replace them.

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