what caused american entry into world War 1, and how did wilson turn the war into an ideological crusade?
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Germany was attacking US commercial ships taking materiel to the Allies (Britain, France, etc.). The US declared war on Germany on 6 April 1917.
676922
Yes. Arguably, Versailles LED to WWII.  The Treaty of Versailles (ToV) harshly punished and blamed Germany for a war that was caused by poor dimplomacy and an all-around lack of goodwill on all sides that might have prevented the war in the first place.  The causes of the war were extremely complex, not the least of which was that many countries were just ITCHING to "play" with the new "toys" of war that industrialization had provided.  America acutally wanted a more balanced outcome at Versailles but wasn't strong enough on her own in 1919 to bring that about (and was in any case reeling from a flu epidemic at home that incapacitated their president).  Thanks largely to the self-righteous attitude of some countries that were out for blood - France in particular - the Germans were singled out as the cause of the war and were made to bear the brunt of the defeat.  This quite naturally led to considerable resentment among the German people - the wisdom of hindsight now allows us to see that this anger and resentment were to become the fertile soil upon which the fanatic Hitler was able to successfully sow his seeds of hatred and destruction.  Following WWII - a much stronger America - mindful of the lessons learned from the conclusion of WWI - insisted on creating strong and wealthy democracies out of the deafeated nations of Germany and Japan instead of creating punished adversaries seething with resentment.  The results of that courageous American vision stand in stark contrast to that offered by the European powers after WWI, as well as the Soviet model offered to Eastern Europe after WWII - and the results are plain for all to see.
659439
America was there to aid the French in the beginning, and then were military advisers. Ho Chi Min started a cue that led to troops coming in from China, and Russia aided with weaponry. Lindon Johnson decided to send in more troops, and America started bombing Viet Nam for ten years. The rest is history. It all started a draft, and full scale war against Communism. We lost.
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World War I/Great Depression
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The primary reason was the US was shocked by WW1 and didn't want to get involved in Europe's problems anymore.  The US was also focusing on a lot of problems at home, including the Great Depression, and didn't want to spend money on foreign affairs.
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For Europe:\n\nThe Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand (not the Band) assasination which ultimately sparked the war between the nations in the Balkans, (Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia etc)...and Austria. Then, the maticulous alliance ladder fell down, Germany who was friends with Austria declared war on Russia who was freinds with Serbia who was a close friend of another nation, then France declared war on Germany to keep in check their booming armed forces, which when invaded drew Britain and then the poles into the war...throw in Japan too.\n\n(FOR EUROPE IT WAS ALLIANCES)\n\nFor the US however, it was mainly triggered by the Zimmerman Telegram to the Mexican government; the British MI detected the telegram that was intended to provoke Mexico to invade the US in turn to keep the US out of Europe's war, and keep Germany safe from having a harder war to fight on the Western Front. Also, we can't leave out the excessive U-boat sinkings that the Germans committed against US and British merchant ships, the Lusitania carrying some odd number of civillians, it was a bloody mess. Wilson didn't want to go to war, nor did the nation, but in the end, the man who won reelection on the slogan "He kept us out of war," led the nation to its first World War...The Great War to end all wars.
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Nationalism....everyone had a heightend sense of pride in their own nation. It would be easier to bring up soliders for the "great war" since everyone believed their nation to be best and worth fighting for. Also like nations got into alliances and often these alliances got quite tangled and would eventually be seenas probably the one of the main causes for the war. Imperalism....the powers that be in Europe were all competing on the international level for resources, markets, and prestige. The highly hostile and competitive atmosphere because of conflicting interests helped add to a war climate. Militarism... since most of the main powers needed a strong military to be able to exert their imperial dominance, strong militaries were popular during the period. As one nation built up their arms, the others would follow suit in order to avoid the balance of power from tipping to far one way. Each of these causes helped build a foundation for war which was sparked because of the archdukes assination.
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here is a link that will help u http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_World_War_I
849243
Agree or disagree with the American contributions in the first and second world wars, one thing is certain. The Us is not capable of engaging in a conflict to support its own interest and sustaining the resolve required to win. We have surrendered to liberal heresy and are doomed to suffer the fate of a weak and conviction-less nation.
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Wow, just ignore the previous post. Someone has their wars mixed up.\n\nThe United States was neutral during WWI because they felt that this was a European conflict, and none of their business. What drew us into the war was a German U-boat attack on a US ship.
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You need to check the definition of 'responsible'.\n\nYou also need to check your history. Churchill did not 'drag Britain into war', he became Prime Minister after war was declared\n\nWhy not blame Hitler; it was Hitlers actions that caused Britain to declare war.\n\nOr indeed, why not blame the Treaty of Versailles, whos onerous toll on Germany provided the conditions for Hitler to thrive.\n\nBut then why not blame WW1..?\n\nAnd are you suggestion that it was Churchill's airforce that bombed Pearl Harbor? Because it was that incident that brought the US into the war.\n\nYour question is so insulting and nonsensical I can only assume you are totally ignorant.
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The First World War, or (before 1939) the Great War, was a world conflict lasting from August 1914 to the final Armistice on November 11, 1918. The Allied Powers (led by the United Kingdom, France and until 1917 Russia, and, after 1917, the United States) defeated the Central Powers (led by the German Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Empire). The war caused the collapse of four empires and a radical change in the map of Europe and the Middle East.
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WWI started in 1914 with the assisination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Serbia, US military involment started in 1917\nWWII (I assume that what you mean) started in 1939 with Germany invading Poland, US commits troops in 1941, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor
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America's role in WWI was not as large as it was in WWII (although in both wars the U.S. entered the war late - for more information I would compare the information between the two wars check here for a start http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_states_of_america#World_War_I_and_II\n\nGood Luck!!!
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The United States entered that war incrementally, in a series of steps between 1950 and 1965. In May 1950, President Harry S. Truman authorized a modest program of economic and military aid to the French, who were fighting to retain control of their Indochina colony, including Laos and Cambodia as well as Vietnam. When the Vietnamese Nationalist (and Communist-led) Vietminh army defeated French forces at Dienbienphu in 1954, the French were compelled to accede to the creation of a Communist Vietnam north of the 17th parallel while leaving a non-Communist entity south of that line. The United States refused to accept the arrangement. The administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower undertook instead to build a nation from the spurious political entity that was South Vietnam by fabricating a government there, taking over control from the French, dispatching military advisers to train a South Vietnamese army, and unleashing the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to conduct psychological warfare against the North.\n\n\nhttp://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/vietnam/causes.htm
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We felt that we placed enough safegaurds in the Treaty of Vesailles to keep there from ever being another war ever to be fought.  World War I or the Great War was the war to end all wars.  We placed strict limitaions as to the size and weaponry that the German Armed Forces would have to remain under, they were not allowed an Air Force or anything but Defensive Weapons.  We also created the League of Nations to be able to resolve differences between countries before a war broke out.  World War I was fought with new weaponry, yet they tried to fight it as an old style war.  Chemical weapons were used in the form of Mustard Gas and sometimes after the release of it the wind would shift and it didn't go where planned.  The war on the Western Front ended up being fought in trenches and the headway was often measured in feet and yards rather than miles.  It was also the first time that the Airplane made it's entrance to a war as a substantial weapon.  The technology of things had grown faster at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries than man had ever known before.  World War I had motor driven vehicles, airplanes, machine guns, repeating arms, heavy artilery.  Yet it was a war they tried to fight from the back of a horse.  It did not work and new methods had to be thought out as the war progressed.\n\nAll of this leads up to the failure of collective security.  Many people felt that WWI was the last great war to be fought that technology had grown so fast that fighting war had become inhumane and that as a collective society we would just not let it happen again.  It might have been so except the U.S. Senate never ratified the Treaty of Versailles and we never entered the League of Nations.  America went right back into it's Isolationist Stage once  again and left Europe to the Europeans.  Germany's people were very upset about what they had to give up at the end of the war and then the economy went through the floor.  Along come Adolph Hitler and the Nazi Party which is telling the German People that they have been robbed and that the Germanic People's should all be united once again.  This of course is what the German's wanted to hear.  The problem with uniting all the Germanic People was that they were spread out in different bordering countries.  In 1938 with out firing one shot the German's annexed  Austria and Chekoslovokia in a peaceful settlement negotiated by Neville Chamberlain Prime Minister of Great Britian, who stated "there will be peace in our time".\n\nWe had tried to set up boundries and limitations that would keep this from ever succeeding in this world at the end of World War I, yet not all of the parties would take responsibility for seeing it through.  I am not saying the U.S. participation in the League Of Nations would have made a difference, other countries turned their back as to what was happening besides the Americans.   People actually believed the retoric that there would be no more wars.  When we allowed the Annexation of 1938 we sent a clear message to Hitler that we were not going to put up much of a fuss and that Europe was his for the taking.  Germany was not allowed an Air Force, so she had flying clubs that flew warplanes on the week-ends, Nazi Youth were trained to be added to the Military when needed, we knew all about these things, but in the name of peace we collectively did nothing to stop it.  When World War II started on September 1, 1939 it took almost 6 full years to put a stop to the machine that should have never been allowed to be built.
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FDR wanted to get into the war to assist Britain but the public wanted no part of it.  The U.S. provoked Japan into an attack and sacrificed Pearl Harbor (U.S. intelligence knew they were coming) so the public sentiment would change and support our efforts to wage war against Germany.\n\nJohnny