can u help me with an american history essay that deals with wwi?

Question

what role did public opinion play in the united states decision to enter wwi. thx

Answer 1

That is a really broad topic. The United States was a neutral country through out most of World War I. American citizens were overwhelmingly opposed to intervention in European conflicts and always had been. However, there were a lot of politicians, industrialists, and newspaper owners that wanted the United States to enter into the war. Newspapers had a huge role in swaying the American public's opinion toward intervention on the Allies side. Newspapers reported events that were largely unknown to America, and were often blown out of proportion. German attacks on U.S. merchant ships, and a intercepted letter from Germany to Mexico promising a return of lost lands if the Mexican government took side with Germany against the U.S. in the event of war outraged a lot of Americans. Without this outrage, the American public would have never tolerated the use of American forces in a European war.

Answer 2

NON-INTERVENTIONISTS
"Something else is lost in traditional American histories. That is the vigorous, often eloquent attempts of citizens and statesmen from every part of the country to keep America out of what they saw as a war fought by other nations for their own purposes, and the inevitable threat to Constitutional liberties they posed. ..."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/dwyer3.html

also see:
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=471
http://www.polytechnic.org/faculty/gfeldmeth/chart.ww1.html
http://www.socialstudieshelp.com/Lesson_72_Notes.htm

Answer 3

I heard that they'd not even keep in mind examining your essay must you used a pencil, which I evaluate is ridiculous provided that it is going to come all the way all the way down to the content cloth of the writing besides the shown fact that that the writing medium.

Answer 4

the American way, the early days of Supper man. Of course the nation was filled with trepidation but we felt as though it was our obligation to protect the world, much as we do today but with a real sense of duty to protect freedom.

Answer 5

wise.fau.edu/~kosgood/AMH2020/essay
philip.greenspun.com/politics/israel
www.american.edu/bgriff/Hist206/usassign.htm
www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_05/006368.php
www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/tm/american2.htm