USA HISTORY

The United States didn’t enter World War I until 3 years into the war, in 1917. Which answer choice most accurately describes the United States foreign policy at the time?

(A) America should conquer any country who tries to become more powerful than America.

(B) Americans should hide when a draft is in effect so they won’t have to go to war.

(C) ** America should stay out of wars overseas because it’s none of our business.

(D) America should stay out of wars overseas because our military is so weak that we will be destroyed.

Concept note-1: -When WWI began in Europe in 1914, many Americans wanted the United States to stay out of the conflict, supporting President Woodrow Wilson’s policy of strict and impartial neutrality. “The United States must be neutral in fact as well as in name during these days that are to try men’s souls.

Concept note-2: -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-3: -When war broke out in Europe in 1914 President Wilson declared that the United States would follow a strict policy of neutrality. This was a product of a longstanding idea at the heart of American foreign policy that the United States would not entangle itself with alliances with other nations.

Concept note-4: -Without U.S. entry, there would have no Versailles Treaty, termed a “diktat” by Hitler, who used it to arouse Germany against the Weimar Republic and Wilson’s League of Nations.