The Main Reasons Have to be
1. The Sinking the the British Passenger Liner Lusitania.
2. The Zimmerman Note take told Mexico to join the war on their side and receive back the land taken from them in the Mexican-American War
3. The return of Unrestricted Submarine Warfare after they agreed to no longer use the tactic.
4. The sinking of US Cargo Ships
2007-02-14 15:12:31
·
answer #1
·
answered by MG 4
·
1⤊
0⤋
It became in no way the sinking of the Lusitania, which became 2 total years earlier. no rely how in many cases that's repeated, dozens of human beings nonetheless save posting it as though it became a technique or the different genuine. the biggest journey happened presently earlier break of day on August 5, 1914, somewhat an afternoon after Britain had declared conflict on Germany. The British cable deliver SS Telconia steamed out of her abode port, around the North Sea to a factor off the Dutch coast close to Emden, the place her team enable grapples right down to the sea mattress. They reported Germany's Transatlantic telegraph cables, chopped via them, and dropped the ends decrease back into the water. as a consequence, all Germany's communications along with her distant places diplomats and allies for the period of the conflict had to be made the two via radio, or over the telegraph cables of friendly independent international places, maximum of which gone via London. That became how the Zimmerman Telegram became picked up via the British and decoded, and it became the Zimmermann Telegram which introduced the U.S. into WWI.
2016-12-17 10:00:56
·
answer #2
·
answered by ? 4
·
0⤊
0⤋
the sinking of the lusitania made americans mad because they were neutral until then but the germans still sunk the lusitania which had american civians. The Zimmerman Telegram which was a telegram that was sent to mexico from germany saying that if Mexico invaded the US and germany won the war they would give mexico the land that the US got in the mexian war ( some believe this was a ploy by the british to get america on there side to help with the war). And also the alliances in europe so that when one country went to war all their allies have to attack the enemies allies and then it just escalated
2007-02-14 07:59:32
·
answer #3
·
answered by Ben L 2
·
0⤊
0⤋
No afk jon! those were the causes of WWI. What brought the U.S. into it was the same old $hit that always does. Oil!!!!!!! Read up!
Yeah Mr. num num's a little more on the money. If youre doing an assignment those are the exceptable answers, but cotroversy lay in each of them.
Republican pressure=Big Business+Oil!!!!
Submarine Warfare=Propaganda=similarity to Bush's excuses for invading Iraq
The Sinking=Conspiracy=WWI's version of Pearl Harbor
2007-02-14 07:55:58
·
answer #4
·
answered by lonewolf07 2
·
0⤊
0⤋
1. The Sinking of the Lusitania
This was considered at the time to be one of the fastest, most elegant passenger ships of its day, and had already somewhat of a reputation. On ship were many famous people, as well as thousands of passengers. Many of who were Americans. The ship was hit by German Torpedos, and sunk down. This was seen by many Americans as a cruel act towards civilians... and were especially angered that Americans had now lost their lives due to German weapons in an unneeded war.
If Germany had a little outspoken support in the states before this, if didn't have much now, and public favoritism went to Brittain and her allies.
2. The Zimmerman Telegram
Before this, the United States government leaned their support strongly towards the Allies (Fr.Gb. ect.), but the people didn't want a war, and didn't feel a big enough threat from Germany.
This telegram was to the president of Mexico, from the leaders of Germany, offering a pact against the United States. It promised Mexico a lot of the land that America took from it in the past. (January 16, 1917
This shook a lot of people up back in the states, because before then, the only casualties America saw, where people who took boats across the atlantic... there was NO threat to our homeland before then.
3. Continual Merchant Ship attack
Germany got more strict in the seas, and started destroying American merchant ships. This is where they crossed the line, because the Lusitania was a passenger ship of GB... which was apart of a war country. The United States had pleaded peace, and agreed to keep trading to both sides, but now Germany was attacking out own ships. We would not be attacked, and then expected to be quiet, in the eyes of Roosevelt. He asked congress to go to war, and they supported him for the most part. There were only small groups of German areas in America that were against the War with Germany.
2007-02-14 08:37:07
·
answer #5
·
answered by AckDuScheisse!! 4
·
0⤊
0⤋
There were preliminary events that turned U.S. public opinion away from isolationism and against the Central Powers, such as the sinking of the liner Lusitania.
But the event that triggered a declaration of war was interception and decoding of the Zimmermann telegram. This was a message from German foreign minister Zimmermann to the German ambassador in Mexico City. It instructed him to offer Mexico an offensive and defensive alliance against the U.S. Mexico was to invade the U.S. and recover territory lost during the 19th century. Germany would wage submarine warfare along U.S. coasts.
2007-02-14 07:56:03
·
answer #6
·
answered by steve_geo1 7
·
0⤊
0⤋
1. The sinking of the Lucitania
2. The German policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.
3. Theodore Rooseveldt's influence on Wilson and political pressure from the Republicans.
2007-02-14 07:54:26
·
answer #7
·
answered by Anonymous
·
0⤊
0⤋
I think it might have been the sinking of the Lusitania, the Zimmerman Note that Germany sent to Mexico, and Germany's use of submarine warfare, which the U.S. considered unconventional and unfair. America said it was entering the war to preserve Democracy.
2007-02-14 08:04:11
·
answer #8
·
answered by Max 6
·
0⤊
0⤋
1. The Zimmerman Telegram
2. The sinking of the Lusitania
3. Russia pulling out of the war.
2007-02-14 08:00:33
·
answer #9
·
answered by traysea303 2
·
0⤊
0⤋
I think the 3 biggest events are
1. the sinking of the Luisitania
2. the Germans reneging of their promise and went back to unrestricted submarine warfare
3. the Zimmerman note
2007-02-14 08:37:10
·
answer #10
·
answered by Dave aka Spider Monkey 7
·
0⤊
0⤋