1. The U.S. Enters WWI

2. Quickwrite
What events caused the U.S. to enter the war?
Why did the U.S. enter on the side of the Allies and NOT on the side of the Central Powers?

3. At first… many Americans DID NOT want to enter into the war.

4. Still… Most Americans weren’t truly “neutral in thought as well as in action”
WHY!?

5. American Positions
Goals
Isolationists
Interventionists
Internationalists

7. British Naval Blockade

9. German U-boat Warfare

10. Convoy System

11. Great Britain
Germany
France
Aus-Hungary

12. Sinking of the Lusitania
Why did Germany violate its promise to spare unarmed ships even at the risk of drawing the U.S. into the war?

13. Zimmerman Note

16. What other factors got the U.S. involved with the war?
Germans resumed unrestricted sub warfare
Wilson’s promise for a “Peace without victory… a peace among equals.”
Russians overthrew their Czar
made this a war of democracies versus monarchies (little did we know that Russia would become Communist!)