AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 1890 1919
CAUSES OF WORLD WAR I
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Question
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Wilson Proclaims Neutrality
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British Blockade and German U-Boat Blockade
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Sinking of the Lusitania
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -4, 1914. President Woodrow Wilson. As what was then known as “The Great War” erupted across Europe, President Woodrow Wilson on this day in 1914 declared that the United States would remain “impartial in thought as well as in action.”
Detailed explanation-2: -“The United States must be neutral in fact as well as in name during these days that are to try men’s souls. We must be impartial in thought as well as in action, must put a curb upon our sentiments as well as upon every transaction that might be construed as a preference of one party to the struggle before another.”
Detailed explanation-3: -He wanted to make sure that these Americans would put aside their European loyalties and conform to a single American approach to the war. Woodrow Wilson was well known as an orator, a skilled and eloquent public speaker.
Detailed explanation-4: -Wilson cited Germany’s violation of its pledge to suspend unrestricted submarine warfare in the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean, as well as its attempts to entice Mexico into an alliance against the United States, as his reasons for declaring war.