Why Did America Join World War I?

November 11th,1918 eleven o'clock, I felt something in the air that changed, the war was over, it was finally over. The whole war for everyone lasted over four years, but only a little over a year for America. World War One killed nine million soldiers, injured 21 million soldiers, and at least five million civilians died, and that was only in America. The official war started June 28, 1914. On August 4th, 1914, Woodrow Wilson officially announced America would be neutral in the war. Bankers were allowed to lend money to both sides, America was allowed to trade, help, or provide items for both sides. The United States, officially joined the war April 6th, 1917. America had joined the allies, Britain, France, Russia, and Italy, eventually
If the law was so serious there would not be any loopholes, but the fact that people can find loopholes shows that people are not 100 percent controlled by the government. They have the chance to get the outcome they want but they have to follow very strict rules to do it, but if they get even a little bit out of the guidelines they would be arrested. This shows that people can still do something if the government did not want you to do it a certain way, and if there are strict rules to do it but you are not willing to follow those rule, do you really want the outcome? The cons of the war is that we lost many civilians and soldiers, prices for everyday essentials increased tremendously, a lot of people lost their jobs, a lot of people’s salaries were cut. The last con that I am mentioning is that although women took care of the companies or factories while the men were away, women still were not looked as as equals, they did get a little more respect but not as much respect as they should have gotten. Asy you can see these are just a few of the pros and cons that impacted America after the war, there are many more that I have just not