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The United States entered into World War I in April 1917, more than two and a half years after the war began in Europe. Apart from an Anglophile element urging early support for the British and an anti-Tsarist element sympathizing with Germany 's war against Russia, American public opinion had generally reflected a desire to stay out of the war.
The United States entered World War I in 1917, following the sinking of the British ocean liner Lusitania and the shocking discovery of the Zimmermann telegram.
U.S. Entry into World War I, 1917. On April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson went before a joint session of Congress to request a declaration of war against Germany.
Why did the U.S. Fight in WWI? Why did America enter World War I? When WWI began in Europe in 1914, many Americans wanted the United States to stay out of the conflict, supporting President Woodrow Wilson’s policy of strict and impartial neutrality.
World War I - US Entry, Causes, Impact: The U.S. declared war on Germany after U-boats sank three U.S. merchant ships. The March Russian Revolution led to the end of imperial Russia, and the October Revolution of the Bolsheviks ended Russia's role in the war when they signed the treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
The American entry into World War I came on April 6, 1917, after a year long effort by President Woodrow Wilson to get the United States into the war.
Two days after the U.S. Senate voted 82 to 6 to declare war against Germany, the U.S. House of Representatives endorses the declaration by a vote of 373 to 50, and America formally enters World...
In his speech before Congress, Wilson laid out evidence of why the United States should now join its allies, Great Britain and France, in the European war that had been raging since August 1914—at the cost of enormous bloodshed and destruction that showed no end in sight.
The US entered World War I because Germany embarked on a deadly gamble. Germany sank many American merchant ships around the British Isles which prompted the American entry into the war.
After nearly three years of neutrality, President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress for a declaration of war against Germany, plunging America into the bloodiest conflict the world had ever seen. U.S. entry into World War I marked a decisive turning point in the war and in American history.