Why Is Britain Neutral

This year is the year that marks the 100th anniversary of World War I. In 1914 the war started in Europe starting a world wide struggle that would eventually kill 9 million people. World War I had the Allies made up of Britain, Belgium, France, Serbia, Russia, Japan, Italy, and the of course the United States. The Central Powers made up of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria. In the beginning of the war France, Germany and Britain made trenches that went for 460 miles, from the North Sea to Switzerland. Millions of people would die in this trench over the next four years. Most of the Europeans rushed into the battle without considering important things. One of the things they did not consider was what a general war would
Staying neutral turned out to be hard to maintain for the U.S. President Wilson first tried to limit the financial involvement in the war by banning American bank loans to the other nations. The Secretary of State believed the ban would bring the war to a quicker end then it should because it would make it impossible for the nations to buy the resources they needed to continue in the war. In 1915 Wilson ended the ban because the Allies were running low on cash, and Wilson didn't want a big drop off in money production if the nations stopped buying American items. In the year 1917 America was loaning Britain about $10 million daily to buy goods from the United States. While this was happening, American trade with one of the nations, Germany, dropped dramatically. A main reason for this was because trade became close to impossible after the British navy blockaded Germany and cut the cable between the Germany and the United States. Germany came back from this with a new weapon called the submarine, launching surprise attacks to disturb trade between Britain and the United States. This submarine warfare soon created bad blood in the German–American