https://padlet.com/calwil22/yqy8amu9aalg2t7 AMERICA JOINS THE WAR 🇺🇸 en-us 2021-12-02 14:15:23 UTC 2021-12-02 14:38:32 UTC hello@padlet.com calwil22 https://padlet.com/calwil22/yqy8amu9aalg2t7/wish/1925230182  
Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand ]]> 2021-12-02 14:15:23 UTC https://padlet.com/calwil22/yqy8amu9aalg2t7/wish/1925230182 calwil22 https://padlet.com/calwil22/yqy8amu9aalg2t7/wish/1925230184 Woodrow Wilson gives a Speech declaring the U.S neutral "in fact and in name"]]> 2021-12-02 14:15:23 UTC https://padlet.com/calwil22/yqy8amu9aalg2t7/wish/1925230184 calwil22 https://padlet.com/calwil22/yqy8amu9aalg2t7/wish/1925230185 - germany introduced the new naval weapon, the submarine
- germany created a blockade near the British Isles and declared the area a war zone
- they warned that anyone who entered risked being sunk
 ]]> 2021-12-02 14:15:23 UTC https://padlet.com/calwil22/yqy8amu9aalg2t7/wish/1925230185 calwil22 https://padlet.com/calwil22/yqy8amu9aalg2t7/wish/1925230186 -German torpedoes sunk a British passenger line, the Lusitania
-first major threat to American neutrality
-most passengers drowned, 128 being Americans
-Wilson issued a harsh diplomatic message threatening Germany if they acted like this again]]> 2021-12-02 14:15:23 UTC https://padlet.com/calwil22/yqy8amu9aalg2t7/wish/1925230186 calwil22 https://padlet.com/calwil22/yqy8amu9aalg2t7/wish/1925230189 Two Americans lost their lives when a German submarine attacked another passenger ship, the Arabic. The Germans after this event pledged that no unarmed passenger ships would be sunk without warning. ]]> 2021-12-02 14:15:23 UTC https://padlet.com/calwil22/yqy8amu9aalg2t7/wish/1925230189 calwil22 https://padlet.com/calwil22/yqy8amu9aalg2t7/wish/1925230190 A German torpedo struck an unarmed merchant ship, the Sussex, which injured several passengers. Germany backed down after because they were afraid for the Americans to join the war on the British side. ]]> 2021-12-02 14:15:23 UTC https://padlet.com/calwil22/yqy8amu9aalg2t7/wish/1925230190 calwil22 https://padlet.com/calwil22/yqy8amu9aalg2t7/wish/1925230192 The US economy was tied closely to Great Britain and France, and because, and trading with them in 1914 helped them get out of a recession. Because of the British blockade preventing trade with Germany, the US was only trading with the allied forces ]]> 2021-12-02 14:15:23 UTC https://padlet.com/calwil22/yqy8amu9aalg2t7/wish/1925230192 calwil22 https://padlet.com/calwil22/yqy8amu9aalg2t7/wish/1925230193 - Woodrow Wilson only won 1912 election because Republicans were split between Taft and Roosevelt
- Roosevelt turned down the Progressive Party's nomination  in 1916
- Charles Evans Hughes republican candidate
- Using the "He kept us out of War" as his slogan, Wilson won by a narrow margin. ]]> 2021-12-02 14:15:23 UTC https://padlet.com/calwil22/yqy8amu9aalg2t7/wish/1925230193 calwil22 https://padlet.com/calwil22/yqy8amu9aalg2t7/wish/1925230194 The Zimmerman telegram sent from Germany to Mexico is intercepted by British intelligence, who alerts the U.S. that Germany has proposed to ally with Mexico in exchange for helping Mexico recover lost territories.]]> 2021-12-02 14:15:23 UTC https://padlet.com/calwil22/yqy8amu9aalg2t7/wish/1925230194 calwil22 https://padlet.com/calwil22/yqy8amu9aalg2t7/wish/1925230195 Russian revolutionaries overthrew the czar's government and proclaimed a republic, which made U.S. being allies with Russia acceptable for the "triumph of democracy."]]> 2021-12-02 14:15:23 UTC https://padlet.com/calwil22/yqy8amu9aalg2t7/wish/1925230195 calwil22 https://padlet.com/calwil22/yqy8amu9aalg2t7/wish/1925230196
U.S. Congress declares war on Germany 

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