https://padlet.com/danna_castillo/kiig9pne0fb8 Why did the U.S. enter World War 1? en-us 2016-04-12 12:24:03 UTC 2016-05-20 12:06:50 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padletuploads.blob.core.windows.net/aws/108821591/d8eb977c94f277aa15387d66497f8634850080b4/b99312ab434c7726f208e590d6223623.jpg kelly_seitz https://padlet.com/danna_castillo/kiig9pne0fb8/wish/105293603 2016-04-12 12:35:04 UTC https://padlet.com/danna_castillo/kiig9pne0fb8/wish/105293603 kelly_seitz https://padlet.com/danna_castillo/kiig9pne0fb8/wish/105293895 The U.S entered Britain, France, and Russia (the allies), however many Americans wanted to stay neutral.]]> 2016-04-12 12:36:23 UTC https://padlet.com/danna_castillo/kiig9pne0fb8/wish/105293895 kelly_seitz https://padlet.com/danna_castillo/kiig9pne0fb8/wish/105526211 They tried desperately to stay neutral and out of the war, but America's ties to Britain (both practically and culturally) pushed the U.S., to getting involved. ]]> 2016-04-13 12:09:34 UTC https://padlet.com/danna_castillo/kiig9pne0fb8/wish/105526211 danna_castillo https://padlet.com/danna_castillo/kiig9pne0fb8/wish/105526237 The image above shows a newspaper when the United States entered the war. It talks about president Wilson signing the resolution, to agree to have America fight in the war. ]]> 2016-04-13 12:09:41 UTC https://padlet.com/danna_castillo/kiig9pne0fb8/wish/105526237 tamara_alvarado1 https://padlet.com/danna_castillo/kiig9pne0fb8/wish/105526959 On April 6, 1917 The U.S joined allies; Britain, France and Russia, to fight in WWI, which was commanded by Major General John J. Pershing. Even though many american's were opposed to the U.s entering WWI because they wanted to remain neutral.]]> 2016-04-13 12:13:17 UTC https://padlet.com/danna_castillo/kiig9pne0fb8/wish/105526959 tiana_treadwell https://padlet.com/danna_castillo/kiig9pne0fb8/wish/105528098 Even though many Americans wanted to stay out of the war, several factors made American  neutrality difficult to maintain. As an industrial and imperial power, the United States felt many of the same pressures that had led the nations of Europe into devastating warfare.]]> 2016-04-13 12:19:42 UTC https://padlet.com/danna_castillo/kiig9pne0fb8/wish/105528098 kelly_seitz https://padlet.com/danna_castillo/kiig9pne0fb8/wish/105529763 President Wilson, who was elected president in 1916, vowed to America that we would stay neutral in World War 1. Britain and Germany made this impossible. ]]> 2016-04-13 12:27:34 UTC https://padlet.com/danna_castillo/kiig9pne0fb8/wish/105529763 danna_castillo https://padlet.com/danna_castillo/kiig9pne0fb8/wish/105529783 America's economic ties were much stronger with the Allies than the Central Powers.]]> 2016-04-13 12:27:39 UTC https://padlet.com/danna_castillo/kiig9pne0fb8/wish/105529783 tamara_alvarado1 https://padlet.com/danna_castillo/kiig9pne0fb8/wish/105530653 The U.S senate votes 82 to 6 to declare war against Germany, and The United States House of Representative 373 to 50, and then America formally enters WWI ]]> 2016-04-13 12:30:50 UTC https://padlet.com/danna_castillo/kiig9pne0fb8/wish/105530653 kelly_seitz https://padlet.com/danna_castillo/kiig9pne0fb8/wish/105530780 This political cartoon shows the "gap in the bridge," which it seems that America has something to do with. The sign says that it was designed by the president of the U.S.A, and uncle Sam-America's Icon- seems to have given up. ]]> 2016-04-13 12:31:28 UTC https://padlet.com/danna_castillo/kiig9pne0fb8/wish/105530780 danna_castillo https://padlet.com/danna_castillo/kiig9pne0fb8/wish/105532285 British propaganda spread some stories about the Germans. This was later proved to be false.]]> 2016-04-13 12:37:09 UTC https://padlet.com/danna_castillo/kiig9pne0fb8/wish/105532285 danna_castillo https://padlet.com/danna_castillo/kiig9pne0fb8/wish/105862349 Moral diplomacy was proposed by president Wilson, and it was a system in which countries only who have their moral beliefs analogous to their nation. ]]> 2016-04-14 17:23:42 UTC https://padlet.com/danna_castillo/kiig9pne0fb8/wish/105862349 tiana_treadwell https://padlet.com/danna_castillo/kiig9pne0fb8/wish/105863716 Zimmerman Note - A telegram from the German foreign minister to the German ambassador in Mexico that was intercepted by British agents. It proposed an alliance between Mexico and Germany and promised that if war with the United States broke out, Germany would support Mexico in recovering "lost territory in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona."  ]]> 2016-04-14 17:28:49 UTC https://padlet.com/danna_castillo/kiig9pne0fb8/wish/105863716 tiana_treadwell https://padlet.com/danna_castillo/kiig9pne0fb8/wish/105867882 Propaganda- a kind of biased communication designed to influence people's thoughts and actions. The government set up the nation's  first propaganda agency, the Committee on Public Information (CPI), to popularize the war. The head of the CPI was a former muckraking journalist named George Creel. Creel's propaganda campaign was highly effective. But while the campaign promoted patriotism,  it also inflamed hatred and violations of the civil liberties of certain ethnic groups and opponents of the war. ]]> 2016-04-14 17:43:05 UTC https://padlet.com/danna_castillo/kiig9pne0fb8/wish/105867882 tamara_alvarado1 https://padlet.com/danna_castillo/kiig9pne0fb8/wish/106279232 Wilson wanted the U.S to enter war because he didn't want the U.S to lose their power of say in European countries.]]> 2016-04-18 12:13:31 UTC https://padlet.com/danna_castillo/kiig9pne0fb8/wish/106279232 tiana_treadwell https://padlet.com/danna_castillo/kiig9pne0fb8/wish/106683331 Unrestricted submarine warfare- a type of naval warfare in which submarines sink vessels such as freighters and tankers without warning.
A German U-boat had sunk the British passenger ship the Lusitania at great loss of life. Unrestricted submarine warfare was suspended following public outcry in the US, but was reinstated in 1917. This eventually led to the American declaration of war on Germany.]]> 2016-04-20 03:26:13 UTC https://padlet.com/danna_castillo/kiig9pne0fb8/wish/106683331 tiana_treadwell https://padlet.com/danna_castillo/kiig9pne0fb8/wish/106683761 2016-04-20 03:30:55 UTC https://padlet.com/danna_castillo/kiig9pne0fb8/wish/106683761