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A great number of Americans felt sympathy for both sides of the war, the nations under the central powers and the nations that made up the Allies. For instance Many Americans that descended from German immigrants felt symphony for Germany. Another example of this are Americans of British immigrants or decedents of British immigrants who would have sympathy for Great Britain. However between Germany and more Americans favored the British

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American Economic ties to the Allies are stronger than ties to Germany. In 1917 U.S loans the Allies 2.3 billion dollars vs 27 million dollars to Germany. American prosperity depended on the Allies victories. The British Blockade prevented freedom of the seas and blockaded German ports which lead to famine in Germany. In response Germany created a blockade using submarines or U boats. On May 7th 1915 the Lusitania was sunken by German U boats killing 128 Americans. In 1916 Woodrow Wilson gets elected as president defeating Charles Hughes.

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1914: Germany declares war on Russia and France.Great Britain declares war on Germany and Austria-Hungary.

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1914: Germany declares war on Russia and France.Great Britain declares war on Germany and Austria-Hungary.

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- 1914: Archduke Franz Ferdinard and his wife are assasssinated. Ferdinand believed the Serbs to be “pigs,” “thieves,” “murderers” and “scoundrels.” Yet he had opposed annexation for fear that it would make an already turbulent political situation even worse.Young Bosnians, a secret revolutionary society of peasant students planned his assination.

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In 1961, Congress passed a resolution that officially recognized meat packer Samuel Wilson (1766-1854) as Uncle Sam's namesake. Wilson, who supplied meat to the army during the War of 1812, is reputed to have been a man of great fairness, reliability, and honesty who was devoted to his country.

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1915:German U-boats sink the Lusitania,and 1,198 people die. The destruction of enemy shipping by German U-boats was a spectacular feature of both World Wars I and II. had brought the United States to the brink of war with Germany. American neutrality was preserved only by the adoption of the so-called Sussex pledge (May 4, 1916), which obliged German submarine captains to precede the torpedoing of merchant or passenger ships with a warning and to provide for the safety of passengers and crew of sunken ships in the wake of such attacks.

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1915:German U-boats sink the Lusitania,and 1,198 people die. The destruction of enemy shipping by German U-boats was a spectacular feature of both World Wars I and II. had brought the United States to the brink of war with Germany. American neutrality was preserved only by the adoption of the so-called Sussex pledge (May 4, 1916), which obliged German submarine captains to precede the torpedoing of merchant or passenger ships with a warning and to provide for the safety of passengers and crew of sunken ships in the wake of such attacks.

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1915: Alexander Graham Bell makes first transcontinental telephone call. This transcontinental phone line was a dream several years in the making, started in 1908 by AT&T's president Theodore Vail. The goal was to actually build the phone line in time to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal. The last pole was installed in Wendover, Utah, in July of 1914, but the official first conversation was postponed until the Panama-Pacific exposition in January the next year.

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- The battle of Verdun and the Somme claim millions of lives.World War I engagement in which the French repulsed a major German offensive. It was one of the longest, bloodiest, and most-ferocious battles of the war; French casualties amounted to about 400,000. costly and largely unsuccessful Allied offensive on the Western Front during World War I. The horrific bloodshed on the first day of the battle became a metaphor for futile and indiscriminate slaughter.
- Woodrow Wilison is re-elected president.

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- The United States declares war on Germany. in response to what was claimed to be a series of provocations by the United States government when the US was still officially neutral during World War II. The decision to declare war was made by Adolf Hitler, apparently offhand, almost without consultation
-The Selective Service Act sets up the draft. authorized the United States federal government to raise a national army for service in World War I through conscription.
- Russia withdraws from the war.Soon after the October Revolution of 1917, and the country turned in on itself with a bloody civil war between the Bolsheviks and the conservative White Guard.

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- Congress passes the Sedition Act.Act of the United States Congress that extended the Espionage Act of 1917 to cover a broader range of offenses, notably speech and the expression of opinion that cast the government or the war effort in a negative light or interfered with the sale of government bonds.
- The  Bolsheviks establish a communist regime in Russia.
- President  Wilson  proposes the League of Nations.Wilson believed that fundamental flaws in international relations created an unhealthy climate that led inexorably to the World War. His FOURTEEN POINTS outlined his vision for a safer world. Wilson called for an end to secret diplomacy, a reduction of armaments, and freedom of the seas.
- First World War ends.

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No Man's Land. No Man's Land is the term used by soldiers to describe the ground between the two opposing trenches. Its width along the Western Front could vary a great deal. The average distance in most sectors was about 250 yards (230 meters).

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- A worldwide influenza epidemic kills over 30 million.Deep within the trenches these men lived through some of the most brutal conditions of life, which it seemed could not be any worse. Then, in pockets across the globe, something erupted that seemed as benign as the common cold. The influenza of that season, however, was far more than a cold. In the two years that this scourge ravaged the earth, a fifth of the world's population was infected. The flu was most deadly for people ages 20 to 40. This pattern of morbidity was unusual for influenza which is usually a killer of the elderly and young children. It infected 28% of all Americans (Tice). An estimated 675,000 Americans died of influenza during the pandemic, ten times as many as in the world war. Of the U.S. soldiers who died in Europe, half of them fell to the influenza virus and not to the enemy (Deseret News). An estimated 43,000 servicemen mobilized for WWI died of influenza (Crosby). 1918 would go down as unforgettable year of suffering and death and yet of peace.

- Congress approves the Nineteenth.  In 1919, the 19th Amendment, which stated that “the rights of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex,” passed both houses of Congress and was sent to the states for ratification.

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January 1917 the Zimmerman Telegram was discovered. The Zimmerman Telegram was a request from Germany asking Mexico to join the war on the side of the Central Powers. In return Germany would help Mexico take back territories from the United states that Mexico once owned such as California, Nevada, Arizona and Texas

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Germany started with a submarine blockade during the year of 1915. That same year the British ocean liner the Lusitania killing 128 U.S citizens. On January 31 1917 Germans announce their intention to sink all ships in British waters regardless if the ships were hostile or not.

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World War I began in 1914, after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and lasted until 1918. During the conflict, Germany, Austria-Hungary,Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire (the Central Powers) fought against Great Britain, France, Russia,Italy, Romania, Japan and the United States (the Allied Powers).

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The United States declares war and the reasons why

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The United States declares war and the reasons why

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First, January 31 1917 Germany unrestricted its submarine warfare which led to the Lusitania being sunken killing U.S citizens.
Second, Germany asked Mexico to join the war

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The United States mobilizes its military

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The United States mobilizes its military

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There were only 200,000 active service troops at the time when America declared war.
Congress passed the Selective Service Act in May of 1917. The Selective Service Act was when all men had to sign up for military service which happened at the end of 1918. 24 million men signed up. 3 million troops were called up for deployment. 2 million troops reach Europe with 75% of those troops seeing combat.
369th Infantry Regiment of all African Americans saw more continuous duty on the front lines than any other U.S unit.

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The Government defers shipyard workers and other essential workers a deferred classification.
The U.S Chamber of Commerce trouts shipyard work as important and gave them perks.
Shipyards

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With the help of America the Allies started winning.

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America's entry of the war was a turning point in the war.

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The U.S was so far from the front so their factories were near impossible to bomb. The territory was protected by many miles of oceans from the all the chaos happening at Europe.

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Before America got involved in World War One they had ambition to increase their naval strength.

American imperialism is a policy aimed at extending the political, economic, and cultural control of the United States government over areas beyond its boundaries. It can be accomplished in any number of ways: by military conquest, by treaty, by subsidization, by economic penetration through private companies followed by intervention when those interests are threatened, or by regime change.