HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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They feared the loss of Irish colonies due to the war.
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They resented British rule of Ireland.
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Many Irish immigrants to America were married to Germans.
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They did not want to be allied with the Russian tsar.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Zimmermann Telegram On April 2, President Wilson asked Congress to declare war against Germany specifically citing Germany’s renewed submarine policy as “a war against mankind. It is a war against all nations.” He also spoke about German spying inside the U.S. and the treachery of the Zimmermann Telegram.
Detailed explanation-2: -Why did some Irishmen struggle with the concept of fighting for Britain in World War One? They were all pacifists and did not believe in war. Britain was the nation that many Irish people wanted to be independent from. Ireland and Germany – Britain’s enemy in World War One-had a special alliance.
Detailed explanation-3: -During World War I (1914–1918), Ireland was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, which entered the war in August 1914 as one of the Entente Powers, along with France and Russia.
Detailed explanation-4: -Still chafing under British rule, Irishmen from the South as well as the North nonetheless volunteered to fight in the British Army. Unionists supported the English cause from the start.
Detailed explanation-5: -Most of the sizable population of Irish-Americans sympathized with the Central Powers, reasoning that an enemy of the hated British oppressors of Ireland would be a friend of theirs. Conversely, the nation as a whole carried widespread sympathy for the western Allies.