how did the united states get involved in world war 1?
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Check the link below - Lusitania was WW1
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US President Roosevelt considered the UK to be a bastion against facism, and the US to be 'the aresenl of democracy'. Firstly, the UK was allowed to purchase arms and supplies like a cash and carry and later the "Lend Lease" scheme was introduced allowing the UK to get supplies at no cost at point of collection. Eventually the UK traded some ports and based (like Ascension Island) in return for 50 US Navy Destoyers.\n\nAfter that the US Navy was involved in escorting convoys accross the Atlantic, and then on 10th December 1941, Hitler declared war on the US.
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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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If this is about President Woodrow Wilson, then you're talking about how he acted toward World War 1 before the united states entered it. Wilson believed that the US could remain neutral, and not take part in it. However, german subs began sinking american ships, and British ships began capturing US vessels, which led to the US entering the war.
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The event that triggered the start of World War I (called at the time "The Great War") was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, when he visited Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia on June 28, 1914 by  19-year old Gavrilo Princip. Princip appeared to be a member of a Serbian nationalist group. Austria-Hungary blamed Serbia and declared war. Russians supported the Serbians, and drew in their French allies. Germany was a close ally of Austria and declared war on France and Russia. To get past French defenses, Germany invaded Belgium and Luxeumbourg. This action caused the British to declare war on Germany.\n\nWhile the assassination was seen as the pretext that turned the struggle into all-out war, conflict at this level was seeded through the ongoing arms races between the European countries, and development of diplomatic alliances, and rise of European nationalism.
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The WWI(1914-1918) began as a clash between two coalitions of European countries. The first coalition, known as the Allied Powers, included the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Serbia, Montenegro, and the Russian Empire, japan, and Italy\nThe Central Powers, which opposed them, consisted of the empires of Germany and Austria-Hungary, The Ottoman Empire and  Bulgaria .\nAlthough the United States initially remained neutral, it joined the Allies in 1917.
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WWI began in 1914.  Germany is regarded as the primary agressor, but nationalist sentiments played a big role in all European countries, and there was great enthusiasm for the war on all sides.  Germany was allied with Austria-Hungary and Turkey (then known as the Ottoman Empire) against Britain, France, Russia, Italy, and later the United States (Japan also made small contributions on the allied side in order to seize German overseas posessions).  The U.S. entered in 1917, after Germany adopted a policy of unresctricted submarine warfare which was striking at U.S. shipping interests (including the supply of munitions to Britain) and inflicting civilian casualties.  The war ended on November 11th 1918. The uneasy peace which followed set the stage for all the major 20th century problems, from WWII, to the rise of communism, to the Balkan Wars, to the current tensions in the middle east. Bummer.
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Wow, that's an indepth question to ask.\n\nFor starters, World War I completely reshaped the map of Europe and parts of the Near and Middle East.  The Austrio-Hungarian Empire was divided into Czechoslovakia, Hngary, Yugoslavia, and Austria; parts were also given over to Romania and to Italy.  The Ottoman Empire was divided into British and French Mandates, forming Iraq, Palestine, and Jordan for the British and Syria and Lebanon for the French, as well as the independant state of Turkey.  The Russian Empire was separated into Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland.  The German (Prussian) Empire was divided as well, with part of their territories going to create the Polish Corridor, giving Poland access to the North Sea, an allotment was also made to Czechoslovakia, Blegium, and, of course, the German independant state.\n\nSome of the statistical information concerning World War I is as follows:\n\n-10 million soldiers dead\n-6.6 million civilians dead\n-21 million wounded\n-8 million MIA (Missing In Action) or POW (Prisoners of War)\n-Cost of War appx. $180 billion\n-Other Costs in Relation ~ $150 billion\n\nThere was also a mass movement of displaced people as their homes were utterly destroyed in the wake of the war.\n\nIn terms of politics, the ultimate loss of Russian troops allowed for the successful usurpation of the government by the Communist party.  Since Europe's economy was trashed, the United States became the dominant power in the world financially and wound up being the largest lending agent for the restoration of Europe.  France, bitter at their ultimate defeat, wanted Germany to be punished for its role in the war, which successfully undermined Woodrow Wilson's attempts to settle the Versailles treaty without instilling a sense of anger in the Germans unsuccessful.  Germany was forbidden to have a standing military, and felt betrayed by its high command (Jews, Liberals, Socialists), and combined with the effects of high unemployment created a perfect breeding ground for Hitler and the Nazi party to emerge later.  Italy did not get all that it asked for -- a mutilated victory -- which opened the door for Facism and Musilini.  Britain, with the creation of the Mandates in the Middle East, made a grab for the oil industry.  The Bourgeoisie class was elevated, which mostly eliminated the power of the Aristocracy, which, combined with a deteriorated economy, weakened the strength of Imperial Colonialism and set the stage for the dismantling colonial states held by European states all over the world.\n\nThe full repercussions of World War I would not be felt until World War II with the rise of Nazi Germany and Facist Italy.  The end of the war left countless dead and/or missing and/or displaced, German divided between western powers and those of Russia, who had taken over most of the countries that would later become the USSR.  This set the stage for the Cold War, which would last until the early ninties after the fall of the Berlin Wall.  The Holocaust left over six million Jews dead and the remainder displaced.  As a result, many Jews migrated to Palestine, which soon after became Isreal, a nation backed by the west and resented by Muslims everywhere, thus creating tensions between the Middle East and the Western nations.  The advent of the first atomic bomb would also set off a long series of discussions on the US's use of nuclear technology against Japan.  The United Nations also formed as a result of World War II; their first conferences were held in San Francisco (mostly so the NSA could tap the other delegates' phone lines and listen in on other conversations being held).  The Cold War resulted in the Arms Race, and the decision of the US government to simply out-spend the Russians and drive their economy into the ground, slowly deteriorating the basis for their system of government.  Really, we have not seen all the final effects of World War II, though some of the major politica
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At the beginning of 1917 many Americans were strongly against becoming involved in the First World War. Then, on March 1, 1917, newspapers all over the US printed a sensational story. The story claimed that Arthur Zimermann, the German Foreign Secretary, had tries to persuade Mexico and Japan to attack the US. It all began on January 16. Zimmermann had sent a secret telegram to the German ambassador in Mexico. The telegram told the ambassador to invite the Mexican government to sign an alliance with Germany. The idea was that if the US went to war with Germany, the Mexicans should attack the Americans from the south. Mexico's reward would be the return of all the lands it had lost to the US in 1848. \nZimmermann's telegram was intercepted and decoded by British agents. On February 24, when Americans were already angry at Germany for starting submarine attacks again, the British gave Wilson a copy of the telegram. Wilson was furious. He told the newspapers. People who wanted to keep the US out of the war and those who favored Germany, said that the telegram was a forgery, a British trick. But their efforts to claim that story was untrue collapsed when Zimmermann himself said: "It is true."\n\nThe Zimmermann telegram turned American opinion more strongly in favor of the Allies. This was especially true in the previously uninterested western parts of the country. These were the areas that would have been threatened most if Zimmermann's plan had worked.
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Your question is kind of confusing because I don't know if you want information regarding the Central Powers (the triple alliance) or the Triple Entente.  What I can tell you is that anything you want to know about WWI you can get at this website http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWW.htm
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World War I\nWEB LINKS\n\nPRIMARY SOURCE DOCUMENTS.\n\nFantastic Resources.\nhttp://www.historyteacher.net/APEuroCourse/WebLinks/WebLinks-WorldWar1.htm\n\nWorld War I\n\nhttp://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWusaG.htm\n\nAlthough the USA had strong ties with Britain, Wilson was concerned about the large number of people in the country who had been born in Germany and Austria. Other influential political leaders argued strongly in favour of the USA maintaining its isolationist policy. This included the pacifist pressure group, the American Union Against Militarism.\n\nhttp://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWW.htm\n\nhttp://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook38.html\n\nRead and listen to stories of the War from the people who lived it. Explore diaries, letters, scrapbooks, newspaper cuttings, photos and keepsakes.\n\nhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/worldwarone/\n\nhttp://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/firstworldwar/\n\nhttp://www.wfa-usa.org/new/links.cfm\n\nAn Internet History of The Great War\n\nhttp://www.worldwar1.com/\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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World War I\n\nWEB LINKS\n\nPRIMARY SOURCE DOCUMENTS.\n\nFantastic Resources.\n\nhttp://www.historyteacher.net/APEuroCourse/WebLinks/WebLinks-WorldWar1.htm\n\nWorld War I\n\nhttp://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWusaG.htm\n\nAlthough the USA had strong ties with Britain, Wilson was concerned about the large number of people in the country who had been born in Germany and Austria. Other influential political leaders argued strongly in favour of the USA maintaining its isolationist policy. This included the pacifist pressure group, the American Union Against Militarism.\n\nhttp://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWW.htm\n\nhttp://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook38.html\n\nRead and listen to stories of the War from the people who lived it. Explore diaries, letters, scrapbooks, newspaper cuttings, photos and keepsakes.\n\nhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/worldwarone/\n\nhttp://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/firstworldwar/\n\nhttp://www.wfa-usa.org/new/links.cfm\n\nAn Internet History of The Great War\n\nhttp://www.worldwar1.com/\n\nhttp://www.wfa-usa.org/new/lcav.htm\n\nhttp://www.theaerodrome.com/\n\nGood luck\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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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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President Woodrow Wilson actually had a hard time struggling with this issue. The fact of the matter is that even though the US was technically neutral (and it did go far in making sure that it did not appear otherwise- often to Britain's disadvatage), there was probably a greater cultural as well as economic affinity for Great Britain. Keep in mind the following facts:\n-Britain had naval superiority and maintained a naval blockade that made it difficult for the US to actually be neutral; it was much more likely that US shipping made its way to Britain than to Germany.\n-Germany did not announce unrestricted submarine warfare until late 1916/early 1917.\n\nThe US was committed to staying out of the war but Germany's decision to attack any and all ships- including neutral American ships- made it almost impossible for Wilson to sell the public on the idea of neutrality. After several months of German submarine warfare in early 1917, Wilson and Congress decided war was the last viable option (and the public opinion had also shifted in favor of war).\n\nGermany's submarine warfare in 1916-1917 was the equivalent \nof Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941: it removed peace or mediation as viable alternatives, leaving only the possibility of America's entrance into the conflict.
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U.S. entered WW2 after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Almost immediately after the attack, the congress almost unanimously declared war on Japan. (only one person was against the war).  \n\nWhen U.S. declared war on Japan, Germany declared war on U.S. So, U.S. unanimously declared war on Germany. \n\nA) Italy and Japan were allied with Germany\n\nRussia was also allied with Germany but Hitler broke the Hitler-Stalin Pact and attacked Russia. Russia joined the Allied forces afterwards.\n\nPoland was never allied with Germany.\n\nAustria and Hungary were allied with Germany in WW1.
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In an obtuse sense...\n\nWilson's unwise venture into the first World War did allow for the punitive Versailles treaty which may be said to have led in part to the second World War.\n\nOur non-membership in the League of Nations helped to render that organization powerless.\n\nHitler did start the shooting war in '39 and fired the first several million rounds.  Britain & France decided to join the party 3 days later.  The Poland they sought to save was re-arranged by Stalin.\n\nRoosevelt's communist leaning diplomacy was certainly responsible for provoking Japan to attack the US and for inducing Germany to declare war on the US thus making the second World War truly worldwide.\n\nRoosevelt's condescending to Stalin left Eastern Europe without Levi's for 50 years and us paying the taxes for the sillyness of the cold war.
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America only entered the war after the attack on Pearl Harbour by the Japanese on 7th December 1941. There was resistance from U S ships so that is probably the first area of combat that Americans faced. As the invasion of Europe by allied forces did not take place until 6th June 1944 Americans would not have faced combat in France or Italy. Ships regularly ran the blockade of the English Channel but American ships were not used until 1944. The first American involvement was probably by air at Guadalcanal, the Coral Sea and Midway, air and sea battles.