WORLD WAR I
CAUSES AND COURSE OF THE WAR
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The sinking of a passenger ship, the Lusitania, by a German submarine.
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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
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The United States wanted to prevent future attacks on their own land.
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The Zimmerman Note, which asked Mexico to join the Central Powers if the United States declared war on Germany.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -The note revealed a plan to renew unrestricted submarine warfare and to form an alliance with Mexico and Japan if the United States declared war on Germany. The message was intercepted by the British and passed on to the United States; its publication caused outrage and contributed to the U.S. entry into World War I.
Detailed explanation-3: -The US entered World War I because Germany embarked on a deadly gamble. Germany sank many American merchant ships around the British Isles which prompted the American entry into the war.
Detailed explanation-4: -What are FOUR reasons that the textbook gives for why the U.S. entered the war? Nationalism-in this atmosphere of competition, man feared Germany’s growing power in Europe. Imperialism-As Germany industrialized, it competed with France and Britain in the contest for colonies.
Detailed explanation-5: -Answer and Explanation: Americans felt threatened by the Zimmermann Telegram because it threatened to bring the war to American soil. In the telegram, Germany promised to help Mexico regain territory in Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas that it had lost in 1848.