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Great job here. You put a lot of effort and thought into explaining why the U.S. joined WWI. However, it is unclear how events in Russia made Wilson more likely to join the Aliies. 93

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Great job here. You put a lot of effort and thought into explaining why the U.S. joined WWI. However, it is unclear how events in Russia made Wilson more likely to join the Aliies. 93

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Unfortunately, the audio won't play. Maybe I can listen to the original instead.

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Is this American or British?

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This cartoon shows Lenin taking power in the Bolshevik Party and gaining a majority in Russia.

The Russian Revolution started with poverty and hardships for peasants, while Russia's elite kept getting stronger. The Russians were already in a crisis, but World War 1 made their life harder. The Tsar was blamed for all of the hardships in Russia, and the for war. On February 23rd the national women's day was celebrated in St. Petersburg with women filling up the streets, but only the next day many signs showed "Down with the Tsar!"

The Government lost control of the Capital and Nicholas had to abdicate the throne after 200 years of Romanov Rule. The Provisional Government was made to write a new constitution for the Soviets, but,  the Petrograd Soviet, which was elected by civilians and soldiers that shared power. This was much more radical than the Provisional Government, but it was very into sticking in the war to honor the allies.
This decision however, was a fateful one.

The decision played into the hands of the Bolshevik Party, a smaller party headed by the leader Vladamir Lenin, he bitterly opposed the Imperialist War. His group's slogan was, "Bread! Peace! Land!"
A quick revolution with mutiny from soldiers and Bolshevik's took the streets, and lead to the arrest of Trotsky, a Bolshevik mastermind and leader.

In August General Kornilov moved from the front to St. Petersburg and took the streets. Trotsky, recently released from prison organized with his supporters to defend the city against the military moving in. They were called "The Red Guards" and defended many key points in the city. Kornilov's soldiers started to mutiny and Bolsheviks gained a majority in the Petrograd Soviet. On the 25th of October the Bolshevik's made their move and took over the capitol and overthrew the provisional government. The Bolshevik's fought a civil war against foreign nations and WW1 also. The Bolshevik's have now taken over the whole Russian state.
The Bolshevik's were very anti-war people, because they did not want to be Imperialist, just expand their ¨Empire¨.

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The use of propaganda was one reason why we decided to join the war, having been a big influence on the people and persuaded them to join the war.

Propaganda which was created by the government is thought to be words, pictures, songs, movies, and other things to sway peoples opinions and there attitudes towards something. America was the one to create more posters than any other country. They did everything including being dishonest and using emotional appeals to sway the peoples views. The use of propaganda is to also create hatred for the enemy and try and get people at home to buy supplies for the war and to keep other nations trading with you and not the enemies. Some kids were convinced to buy war stamps in order to help pay for the war. With the industry of propaganda growing it began shaping the minds of Americans and changing the public opinion into a post-war position.

The propaganda would depict the Germans as monsters and a complete evil being. It would also show what would happen if the Germans were to fight the Americans.

CPI better known as the Committee of Public information was created by Woodrow Wilson in order to promote war. The CPI was under the leadership of George Creel who was a muckraking journalist. The CPI also implemented voluntary guidelines for the news media this helped pass the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918. One of the most important parts of the CPI was the Division News, which disturbed more than 6,000 press releases and acted as a primary source for war related information. This is an example of atrocity propaganda which is the most violent acts committed by the Germans.

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Having been neutral until then, the Zimmermann Telegram had been the final push for the US to join the war.

Once Wilson had declared war on Germany, newspapers posted the Zimmermann Note. Discovered by the British in January 19, 1917 and unknown by America until February 24, the telegram had been the short term cause for the US to join the war. The Telegram was published by the American news on March 1. The Note was a telegram from Germany by Arthur Zimmermann to the German Minister to Mexico, von Eckhardt, of a offer to gang up against the United States if they were to go against Germany. The note had drawn in the United States to the war, and had been written for Mexico to join the German cause. David Kahn had said that "No other single cryptanalysis has had such enormous consequences," because of how intensely the Telegram had impacted history. Germany and Mexico were to "Make war together, make peace together" and Germany was to step in and help Mexico regain their lost territory in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona if Mexico were to join the German cause.

This Telegram would have been left unknown by America if British cryptographers had not intercepted the telegram. In fear of the US declaring another war against them, they kept quiet until February 24, where they showed what they had found to Woodrow Wilson. In finding out what Germany had planned, on April 6, 1917, Congress declared war on Germany and its allies.

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The sinking of the Lusitania, Titanic's sister boat, and the German  effected U.S. intrusion in the war.
The Lusitania was a passenger liner that carried ammunition but also many passengers. The sinking killed 128 American Citizens, which angered the American Government.  Freedom of the Seas is the right of merchants to travel the seas freely in peace and in war without interference from other countries unless they reside in territorial zones. Germany had disregarded this principle with the U-Boat attacks, have about 75,000 people (according to Mr Friscia)  because of these attacks. Freedom of the Seas was violated when German U-Boats attacked many U.S. supply ships sending supplies to Great Britain.
The U.S. takes Freedom of the Seas very seriously due to the fact that it is a mass threat to the United States. If someone started to bomb our cargo ships today, we would go to war against them.

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During the devastating war, many of the belligerents needed to trade and get loans from other countries. President Woodrow Wilson saw this as an opportunity for American trade to grow. He did not impose an embargo on trade with the belligerents, but continued to trade instead. The United States, who were leaning towards Britain and France, traded with the Allies far more than anyone else. At the beginning of the war, trade tripled with the Allies.

As the war waged on, many of the nations trading couldn't fuel the amount of trade that was happening between them. Along with the war that they were facing, their cash reserves started to run out. The Allies were a prime example of this. Needing credit desperately, they asked the United States for loans.

President Wilson granted loans to the nations at war. Although the United States gave loans to many belligerents, he greatly favored the Allies over any other countries. While the United States gave credit of over $2 billion to the Allies, they only granted Germany a measly $27 million dollars.

This angered Germany greatly seeing how the United States were favoring the Allies. The loans from the United States were used on many things, such as the British Blockade. The British Blockade restricted any supplies towards Germany or the rest of the Central Powers, which was one of the main causes of death of the Central Powers, causing disease and starvation.

This led them to the decision of resuming unrestricted submarine combat. They weren't afraid of angering the United States as they planned to win the war within five months, and they believed it would take them at least a year to prepare and be ready for war.

As Germany continued with unrestricted submarine warfare, they sunk many ships with United States passengers on it. In total, these submarine attacks caused around 75,000 deaths, with at least 8 US ships sunk. On the famous sinking of the Lusitania, 128 Americans were killed.