What were the final events that pushed the United States to join World War I?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. Following the election of 1916, Woodrow Wilson redoubled his efforts for peace, hoping to start negotiations to end the bloodshed and create a peaceful postwar world.
2. The Allies refused to state their war aims, although they promised to negotiate if the German terms were reasonable.
3. The Germans at first replied evasively, but in early 1917 they revealed their real objectives as, close to forcing Russia out of the war, they sensed victory and wanted territory in eastern Europe and Africa.
4. In early 1917, German resumed unrestricted submarine warfare in the waters around Britain and France and the United States severed relations with Germany.
5. Wilson received a copy of an intercepted telegram from the German foreign minister to the
German ambassador in Mexico in which Germany proposed an alliance with Mexico in case of
war with the United States.
6. As public indignation toward the Germans rose, Congress passed a declaration of war on April 6, 1917.
You might also like to view...
The author of The Negro Genius, who argued that the New Negro genius drew from African inspiration but was also uniquely American, was:
A) Benjamin Brawley. B) Alain Locke. C) W. E. B. Du Bois. D) Kelly Miller.
What was Tecumseh trying to accomplish?
What will be an ideal response?
More than ____ Native Americans lived in the forests and prairies east of the Mississippi in the 1820s
a. 50,000 b. 125,000 c. 200,000 d. 500,000 e. one million
The most important figure in American finance was __________
a. J. P. Morgan b. Andrew Carnegie c. Andrew Mellon d. Albert Fink e. E. F. Hutton