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History 1BB3: America and the World: The Twentieth Century
Dr. Stephen M. Streeter
McMaster University, Winter 2002
I. Background to the U.S. Declaration of War
Triple
Alliance (Central Powers) vs. The Triple Entente (The Allies)
President Woodrow
Wilson and neutrality
William
Jennings Bryan
sinking
of the Lusitania (May 1915)
Zimmermann
Telegram (February 1917)
Wilson's War Message
(2 April 1917) (full text)
II. Explanations
1. public
opinion
2. make the world "safe for democracy" (Fourteen
Points)
3. Anglophilia
4. Open Door
5. war profiteering
6. social
control
Further Reading:
World War I Cartoons
World War I Document Archive
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