WW1 was all about the winner getting land from the loser.US was neutral when WW1 first broke out. 1)US got involved in WW1 because we were very upset with both sides in war. Great Britain was stopping ships and so was Germany but Germany would sink some ships which would kill Americans. 2)Another big reason is because of the Zimmermen not. Stated that Germany was going to start unrestricted submarine war fare which meant they would sink any ship trying to get supplies to Great Britain even if they were American ships. Germany also made an alliance with mexico to fight the US because the US and Mexico hate eachother. 4)Our trade with England increased and trade with Germany decreased which made it obvious that we weren’t really neutral. 6) US started arming and preparing for war which made war more likely to happen. 7) American Business changed to making weapons and other things for war. 8) German declaration of “unlimited submarine warfare”. This kind of goes together with #1.Next he talked about the sinking of Lusitania. This was a British ship that was sunk which killed 130 Americans.Then we talked about the Homefront. People helped win the war from homefront or basically from home without fighting by working in factory and making war goods and having gardens to provide your own food so you don’t take food from others. These were called victory gardens. During this time Herbert Hoover was in charge of food administration.During this time you were supposed to speak English because it was bad if you did anything to support Germany.
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