1. America Joins the War

2. Security Concerns Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
Sinking of the Lusitania
Zimmerman Telegram

3. Economic Benefits Wartime Industry
War not a big deal
Think of recent past wars
“The war created 21,000 new American millionaires and during the war period, 69,000 men made more than three billion dollars over and above their normal income… It would have been quite impossible for President Wilson to have begun a war really intended to ‘make the world safe for democracy’ without facing the united opposition of Wall Street. “
-- John Kenneth Turner, Shall It Be Again? 1922

4. Wilsonian Diplomacy Realist views Wilsonian or Idealist Views
Theodore Roosevelt sees Germany as a threat to the safety of all.
Wilsonian or Idealist Views
- Breakdown of international relations. “We must pursue the interests of humanity at large.” We must champion the cause of self-government to promote peace across the world.

5. Propaganda