How Did Germany's Actions Cause Ww2

Cheyanne Sitch
Pod Cast 3 Part B

World War One had broken out in Europe. The United States at this time was neutral even though we were sending 1,000 horses daily to Europe. The Germans did not like this at all. During this time, in the United States there was a German newspaper that sold 75,000 newspapers a day. At this time, there was 8 million Germans in the US which equaled 1/10 of the population. Most of them where first generation immigrants. The war in Europe caused several problems. The Germans were allowed to sail into the United States, but once here had to stay because the British blockade was in effect. Allied ships where allowed to leave unlike the German ships. This made the German ambassador mad and he consequently said that they would attack if the blockade continued. Germany’s idea at this time was: if you keep America occupied at home, then they will not want to fight the war across the ocean. The Germans had great spies at this time. Their head spy master was Walter Nickoli. He had penetrated Russia and England then stole documents.
When war was eminent in Europe, he then remembered that he had forgot about the United States. He only had one spy in the US at this time and he was an elderly man that worked in a factory. The German ambassador was originally born in England and he had resided in the U.S. six years before the war was declared. Walter Kickoli then told him to hire people already in the United States to become spies. He then became spy master and ambassador. War was declared, and this is when the sabotage had begun. They instigated it and did a good deal of damage but not enough. This is when another German spy came in, and made the spies much more formidable. Ships at sea started to have fires on them. It was later discovered that genius devices called cigar bombs were being placed on these ships. When these well engineered bombs went off, they would sink ships and destroy the evidence of it ever being there. This is when New York decided to step up their investigation. They created a bomb squad which helped prevent attacks. Tom T. was the leader of this. He originally suspected the Germans were behind them. So, the next step for him was to get his team picked out. He then gathered German speaking people. These people had to be US born. From there he got a variety of eligible Germans and they all were sent to assigned places. One day Himerick, the money man of the spy system, had decided to take the subway home.
Here he had his brief case. When he was on the subway, so was an agent, and this agent stole his brief case when Himerick had fallen asleep. In that brief case was 200 documents containing what the Germans had planned on buying. After this, Tom T. decided that the only way to get information was to illegally tap into the phone lines. During this time, President Wilson did not deal with this much; for over 2 years he wanted to keep the public calm. Wilson also wasn’t convinced until a chief aid brought the situation to his attention saying something had to be done. Wilson’s final straw was when the Germans had a plot to arm Mexico and put United States into a war against Mexico. On Flag Day 1917, Wilson explained that he never expected our friends to do this and it was time to go to war. The German ambassador was then
removed. At this time, JP Morgan was a target due to the fact that he loaned 9 million dollars to the allies. JP was shot 3 times by Holt. Holt was actually Erick M. he changed his name after he was running from the law when he killed his wife. When he became a professor at Cornel University, the Germans gave him the assignment to kill JP Morgan, and that’s just what he did. He had also placed a bomb in the US capital building. Once he was caught he was placed into jail and mysteriously died. This information was never enough to declare war with Germany, because there ended up being too many holes in the story unfortunately.