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Woodrow WilsonDeclaration of War Message
Power point created by Robert MartinezPrimary Content Source: Speaking of America: Vol. II: Since 1865, Laura A. Belmonte nhs.needham.k12.ma.us
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• When war erupted in Europe during the summer of 1914, few Americans were
eager to participate.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/65817306@N00/62819212/
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• President Woodrow Wilson declared the United States neutral “in thought as well as
in action.” But maintaining neutrality proved quite difficult.
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• Powerful cultural and family ties connected many Americans to Great Britain.
Tower Bridge in London.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/biluu_72/2291537475/
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• Economists and industrialists viewed European trade as the key to boosting a
slow economy.
http://www.ampneycrucis.f9.co.uk/Ships1920s/photoindex.htm
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• At the same time, millions of Americans of German or Irish descent felt no affinity
(love) for the British.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/idswart/138360714/ German Immigrants
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• Pacifists, Progressives, and Socialists opposed war on moral grounds and feared that U.S. entry into the conflict would end
social reforms at home.
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_fed06d.htm
Socialist presidential candidate - Eugene Debs
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• Although Americans remained divided in their opinions of the war, the desire for expanded international trade and a bias
against the Central Powers soon drew the United States into the conflict.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/waterclock/318923102/
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• German U-boat attacks, especially the sinking of the Lusitania with many
Americans onboard, generated popular demands for vengeance.
http://flatrock.org.nz/topics/history/plan_for_quick_victory.htm
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• At first, the Wilson administration persuaded the Germans to suspend
unrestricted submarine warfare against ships traveling to Great Britain.
http://www.dutchsubmarines.com/pictures/pictures_m1_1910s_1920s.htm
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• In 1916, Wilson won reelection, vowing to keep America out of the war.
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• Within months, desperation compelled the Germans to resume unrestricted submarine
attacks.
http://www.gwpda.org/photos/seashipc.htm
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• Convinced that U.S. involvement in the war could ensure a “peace without victory,”
Wilson asked Congress for a declaration of war on April 2, 1917.
http://www.vw.vccs.edu/vwhansd/HIS122/Lectures2.html
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• “The present German submarine warfare against commerce is a warfare against
mankind. It is a war of all nations. American ships have been sunk.”
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blperiscope.htm
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• “Our motive will not be revenge or the victorious assertion…but only the
vindication of right…”
http://www.shahbazi.org/pages/bushfamily2.htm
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• “I advise that the Congress… exert all its power and employ all its resources to bring the Government of the German Empire to terms and end the war…”
http://www.worldwar1.com/tripwire/smtw.htm
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• “Neutrality is no longer feasible… The world must be made safe for democracy.”
http://www.militaryspecialtiesinc.com/web/Books/ww1Hist&Memoirs/ArmyBoysOnGermanSoil.htm