USA HISTORY

P ri or to U.S entry in 1917, the foreign policy of the U.S. can be best described

(A) ** neutral, but extensively traded with the Allied Powers

(B) neutral, but extensively traded with the Central Powers

(C) complete neutrality with no involvement on either side.

(D) nationalist

Concept note-1: -In early 1917, the U.S. Army had just 133, 000 members. That May, Congress passed the Selective Service Act, which reinstated the draft for the first time since the Civil War and led to some 2.8 million men being inducted into the U.S. military by the end of the Great War.

Concept note-2: -The entry of the United States was the turning point of the war, because it made the eventual defeat of Germany possible. It had been foreseen in 1916 that if the United States went to war, the Allies’ military effort against Germany would be upheld by U.S. supplies and by enormous extensions of credit.

Concept note-3: -Germany’s resumption of submarine attacks on passenger and merchant ships in 1917 became the primary motivation behind Wilson’s decision to lead the United States into World War I.

Concept note-4: -At the start of the war, President Woodrow Wilson declared that the United States would be neutral. However, that neutrality was tested and fiercely debated in the U.S.