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A 3 page paper which examines what caused the First World War, and why the U.S. became involved in what was essentially a European conflict. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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had begun as a conflict between Austria-Hungary and Serbia spread like wildfire throughout Europe because of overlapping alliances (Serbia with Russia and Austria-Hungary with Germany), and it didnt take long
before long simmering antagonisms escalated into all-out war by August with Austria-Hungary declaring war on Serbia, Germany declaring war on Russia, and Great Britain declaring war on Germany. Soon,
The Great War was giving a command performance on the world stage, and in 1914, the United States seemed to be nothing more than a curious member of the audience.
Newly elected President Woodrow Wilson, who had developed an ambitious domestic program shared the pacifism of the American people, and was determined to do whatever was in his power
to keep Uncle Sam out of the combat zone (Kunhardt, 1999). As time passed, and the United States steadfastly stayed out of the war - it was, after all,
essentially a European conflict - President Wilson found himself under increasing internal pressure to enter the war, but he refused. However, events were drawing Americans into the Great War,
whether they wanted to be or not. When a German U-Boat sunk the British ocean liner Lusitania, killing 1,200 people, 120 of those were Americans. The passenger ship,
the Sussex met a similar fate (Kunhardt, 1999). Still, Wilson refused to budge, honoring his countrys commitment to neutrality. Instead, he pleaded a case for patience, and applied
diplomatic pressure to Germany, which did succeed in halting submarine warfare, at least temporarily (Kunhardt, 1999). When Wilson easily won reelection in 1916, he was heralded as "the man
who had kept the country out of war" (Kunhardt, 1999). However, within two months of his second administration, it seemed that everything had dramatically changed (Kunhardt, 1999). The Germans
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