USA Enters the Great War

USA Enters the Great War

In 1915, the British passenger liner the Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine, killing 128 Americans and further heightening tensions. As a response to the murdering of those innocent Americans, in 1917, the U.S. enters the war. Many Americans did not want their country to get in this tension, but instead to remain neutral.

-Woodrow Wilson was indignant with the German Empire’s policy towards ships. They would sink any ship, but they would alert that ship and give a chance of saving their lives. This horrible policy was not respected and they sank all ships.

-He also did not believed that a nation to swore to protect human rights overseas could commit such atrocities. 

-He firmly believed that their nation would not be involucrated on this war for revenge, but to protect human rights.