Why The United States Join World War I

The impact of the United States joining the war was very important and had a huge significant in many ways. World War I began in 1914, however, the United States got involve and join the war until 1917. The United States always kept a policy of neutrality when the war broke out in 1914, and some of the primary factors that influence the entrance of the U.S into war and the declaration of war against Germany were the sinking of the Lusitania, Zimmerman telegram, and unrestricted submarine warfare.
On April 2, 1997, president Woodrow Wilson went before a joint meeting of congress to demand an announcement of war against Germany. He stated that Germany’s violation of its pledge to append unobstructed submarine warfare in the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean, as well as its effort to try induce Mexico into an alliance versus the United States, this was his motives for declaring war against Germany. Unrestricted submarine warfare a desperate effort to counter the British blockade of Germany, would lead
to the sinking of American merchant ships heading to England. Two days later, the Senate voted in support to declare war on Germany. The United States felt that this type of warfare was forbidden and inhumane. Another thing the government also did not like was the circumstance that is condensed American trade with Britain.
During the time that world war one started, most Americans supported the Allies and saw the Germans as invaders. Germany infuriated Americans with their boats sinking American ships doubted of aiding the Allies. The sinking of the Lusitania in 1915, led to 128 Americans who were on the ship, did not make it and lost their lives that day. The Germans briefly stopped such actions but in 1917 continued unrestricted Naval Warfare. During that same time, the British stopped a message, called the Zimmerman Note, asking the government of Mexico to declare War on the United States, if the war broke out between the United Stated and Germany. The British intercepted the Zimmerman Telegram, sent from the German Foreign office to Mexico proposing an alliance between Germany and Mexico if the United Stat4es entered the war against Germany. The exposure of this telegram helped away American public opinion in favor of entering war. This result led to a change of opinion about the war and people actually started to get encourage so, the United States to join the war.
During World War, in the United States, large numbers of women were recruited into jobs evacuated by men who had gone to fight in the war. Thousands of young men were deployed overseas and many of them did not go back to the United States because they lost their life during war. The home front became a nation of working women all across the states. Americans who worked in factories to produce goods needed for the war and also cared for the sick wounded men from the war, and they also recruited men/ supported to war bonds and boycotts.
World war one resulted from Industrialization, nationalism, and imperialism.
Larger countries felt as if they had an ethical responsibility/obligation to defend and profit. Some of the consequences of World War one is the high cost of participation of many countries. Germany and Great Britain are the main ones who spent more compare to the other countries. They spent about sixty percent of the money their economy produced. This cause inflation after the war. However, since the United States entered the war a little later, it did not suffer as much destruction as the European countries did. There was also a consequence in politics after the world war one such as new countries were created out of old empires. World war one also changed society. For instance, birth rates went down, civilians lost their homes and fled to other countries, women’s’ role also change because of the war. Women played a major role in replacing the men who left to war in factories and
offices.