Woodrow Wilson's Declaration Of War

In America, even though we consider ourselves, the land of the free, because of the brave, we attempt to avoid or stay away from any conflict in the world around us that does not directly correlate or affect us as a country. As most of our goods and services are spread throughout the world, we avoid trying to involve ourselves in conflicts even that have a tendency to impact us, even on a slight level. The conflict in Germany was a large reference to that.
Many attempts were made to stay neutral and to give all countries in a sense the benefit of the doubt; we did not want to alter Americans way of living or providing by getting involved in a conflict that did not start with American territory in a sense. As our government and
Congress in general
On January 31, 1917 a note was given to the United States declaring
Germany’s intention to restart unrestricted submarine warfare the following day.
Woodrow Wilson still refrained from asking for a declaration of war because he didn’t feel he would have the support of the U.S. public unless he provided sufficient proof that
Germany intended to attack U.S. ships without warning. Wilson still held out for the possibility that negotiations with Germany would keep them refrained from attacking US ships (U.S. Entry into World War I, 1917 - 1914–1920 - Milestones - Office of the Historian). Despite negotiations and warnings in February and March of 1917, German submarines targeted and sank several U.S. ships, resulting in the deaths of many Americans.
On February 24, 1917 President Wilson received a telegram that the British had intercepted and decoded then forwarded known as the Zimmerman Telegram. This telegram was sent by German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmerman to the German Ambassador in Mexico
City. The “Zimmerman Telegram” promised the Mexican Government that Germany would help
Mexico recover the territory it had lost to the United States following the Mexican-American
War if they would help Germany in the
Finally the fourteenth point proposed what was to become the League of Nations to guarantee the “political

independence and territorial integrity of great and small states alike (U.S. Entry into World War
I, 1917 - 1914–1920 - Milestones - Office of the Historian Wilson ultimately used the Fourteen
Points as the center stone for negotiating the Treaty of Versailles that ended the war).”
The Allies achieved victory over Germany on November 11, 1918 after German morale had collapsed both at home and on the battlefield. World War I came to an end. One of the largest most questioned wars in history, in a sense became one of the most extreme.
It was not without great power and determination that The Allies became victorious, however without the help of Americans defending what we have so greatly grown to respect and stand behind, in my opinion, the war became somewhat of a hardship for all parties. Americans entered into a battle that could not be avoided. They took a stand and came together with another country against a country that they had attempted to remain neutral with. In the end,