The US stayed neutral because President Woodrow Wilson did not take any side in the war so they stayed out of it. There were several other things they did to help in the war. They sold supplies to fighting countries. They sent ships across the Atlantic Ocean with supplies to help. Later the United States was accused of not being so neutral. The British tried to stop America from trading supplies from Germany. This …show more content…
Woodrow Wilson advised congress to declare war on Germany. They United States wanted peace and justice. British intercepted a telegram that was sent out by a man named Arthur Zimmerman. The note had imposed that in the events of the war Mexico would be asked to enter that war and in return their land and lost items would be returned to them in full. Later on April 1917 German U-Boats sink U.S merchant ships. The war began between the United States and Germany.
The war seemed to end in a very peaceful way. Germany realized that they could not win the war so they asked for an armistice. The war was put to a stop for a period of time. The United States and Germany had a secret meeting to discuss and end the war. They can to an agreement and the war ended on November 11, 1918.
At the end of the war president Wilson wanted to make a peace treaty to keep the peace. This treaty was called the treaty of Versailles. This treaty kept Germany and the Allied powers from wanting to start war again. This treaty kept a big range of peace to make peoples life a lot easier. This treaty made a world wide range of peace between Germany and the Allied