WORLD WAR I
CAUSES AND COURSE OF THE WAR
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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German violations of freedom of the seas
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British disrespect for the Roosevelt corollary
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attacks by Mexicans on United States border towns
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the refusal of the League of Nations to supply peacekeepers
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Detailed explanation-1: -President Wilson tells a joint session of Congress that Germany’s policy of unrestricted U-boat warfare poses an unacceptable threat to “freedom of the seas.”
Detailed explanation-2: -As hostilities broke out between several nations of Europe in 1914, almost immediately, President Wilson declared America’s intent to stay neutral and called on all Americans to remain impartial in thought as well as deed. However, Wilson and the United States found it increasing difficult to remain neutral.
Detailed explanation-3: -Woodrow Wilson, a leader of the Progressive Movement, was the 28th President of the United States (1913-1921). After a policy of neutrality at the outbreak of World War I, Wilson led America into war in order to “make the world safe for democracy.”
Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -US President Woodrow Wilson sought to maintain US neutrality but was ultimately unable to keep the United States out of the war, largely because of escalating German aggression. On May 7, 1915, the Germans sunk the British ocean liner RMS Lusitania, which had over a hundred Americans on board.