US reactions to WWI before our involvement in war and causes for US involvement in WWI:
- when the war started, Woodrow Wilson didn't want to get involved and issued a declaration of neutrality in August 1914
- American farms and factories fed and armed Europe's armies
- American manufacturers, munitions makers, and agricultural producers were eager to capitalize on the need for their goods
Causes for us involvement:
- Unrestricted submarine warfare.
- American Propaganda
- German Dictatorship
- U.S. Business Interests
- US trade w/ the allies increased from 825 million in 1914 to 3.2 billion in 1916.
- Zimmerman Note -
- Germany asked Mexico to enter the war against the US. we intercepted the note.
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