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  2. United States declaration of war on Germany (1917) - Wikipedia

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    Declaration of war with Germany; Long title "Joint Resolution Declaring that a State of War exists between the Imperial German Government and the Government and the people of the United States and making provision to prosecute the same." Enacted by: the 65th United States Congress: Effective: April 6, 1917: Citations; Public law: Pub. L. 65–1 ...

  3. American entry into World War I - Wikipedia

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    Even anti-war spokesmen did not claim that Germany was innocent, and pro-German scripts were poorly received. [126] Randolph Bourne criticized the moralist philosophy claiming it was a justification by US intellectual and power elites, like President Wilson, for going to war unnecessarily. He argues that the push for war started with the ...

  4. United States in World War I - Wikipedia

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    Wilson then asked Congress for "a war to end all wars" that would "make the world safe for democracy", and Congress voted to declare war on the German Empire on April 6, 1917. [5] On December 7, 1917, the U.S. declared war on Austria-Hungary. [6] [7] U.S. troops began arriving on the Western Front in large numbers in 1918. [citation needed]

  5. Woodrow Wilson - Wikipedia

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    In April 1917, Wilson asked Congress for a declaration of war against Germany in response to its policy of unrestricted submarine warfare that sank American merchant ships. Wilson concentrated on diplomacy, issuing the Fourteen Points that the Allies and Germany accepted as a basis for post-war peace. He wanted the off-year elections of 1918 to ...

  6. 1917 State of the Union Address - Wikipedia

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    The 1917 State of the Union Address was given by Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the United States on Tuesday, December 4, 1917, during his turbulent second term. He spoke in the United States House of Representatives chamber, in the United States Capitol. He said, "I shall not go back to debate the causes of the war.

  7. Declaration of war by the United States - Wikipedia

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    The table below lists the five wars in which the United States has formally declared war against ten foreign nations. [8] The only country against which the United States has declared war more than once is Germany, against which the United States has declared war twice (though a case could be made for Hungary as a successor state to Austria-Hungary).

  8. Presidency of Woodrow Wilson - Wikipedia

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    Wilson denounced the "little group of willful men" who were unable to stop a declaration of war. But in 1919 they did block the League of Nations treaty because it further entangled America in foreign relationships with distasteful countries, and turned over decisions to international bodies that belonged in Washington. [ 209 ]

  9. Foreign policy of the Woodrow Wilson administration

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    The Kaiser and Germany's real rulers, the Army commanders, realized it meant war with the United States, but expected they could defeat the Allies before the Americans could play a major military role. Germany started sinking American merchant ships in early 1917. Wilson asked Congress for a declaration of war in April 1917.

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