US Neutrality from 1914-1917
First lady in congress
The United States of America had declared neutrality in the year 1914. After, three years of neutrality we decided to go into world war one. You might ask why we would do such a thing. Or what was the point of declaring neutrality if it was only going to last for 3 years? These are all the same questions i have. According to the book there are four main reasons why we broke our neutrality to go into world war one. These reasons are Nationalism, Imperialism, Militarism, and the Alliance System. Nationalism is the devotion to the interest and culture of one's nation. Imperialism is extending where your country is in country, you do this buy colonizing, and buy winning new territories. Militarism is the development of armed forces and their use of the tool of diplomacy. The alliance system was the two major defense systems in Europe. On August 1st, 1914 there were about 3 different wars going on that were all connected. The reasons for the wars was the same... the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand which was which was heir to the Austria throne. Because Ferdinand and his wife Sofia were shot in Serbia, Austria-Hungry declared war on Russia. Germany declared war on Russia’s ally France, and Great Britain declared war on Germany and Austria –Hungary. Thats how the war started.
When congress was in session discussing whether or not we should join on the war the only person to say no was also the first person to speak up. This person was Janette Rankin. Janette Rankin was the first woman to be voted into congress.
Personally I think we should have not entered the war because really we didn’t need to be in it and the issues for why it was started were not ours to deal with they were other countries. So I feel we should not have broken our neutrality we could be as neutral as Switzerland which is not a bad thing!
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