2007-03-11 15:39:26 · 6 answers · asked by Taye E 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Two things that provoked the U.S.A. into fighting the Germans in the First World War was the German policy of unrestricted submarine warfare (which was responsible for over 130 American citizens losing their lives when the passenger ships they were travelling on were sunk by German U-Boats), and the Zimmerman Telegram which implicated Germany in a conspiracy with Mexico against the United States.
2007-03-11 15:47:08 · answer #1 · answered by WMD 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A combination of things.
American trade interests with the western allies was a big one. The allies were going bankrupt and owed America billions. If the allies fell, america would plunge into economic depression, since they were counting on them paying back their debts...
German Submarine warfare can always be put out there.
2007-03-11 15:46:10 · answer #2 · answered by Gary W 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The sinking of the Lusitania in 1915 with 128 American aboard by the German navy.
2007-03-11 15:48:10 · answer #3 · answered by MoltarRocks 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, at one point the US was five votes short of coming in on the German side. The Zimmerman Memorandum, promising Mexico all of the land it lost to us for attacking us that did it.
2007-03-11 15:49:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Lusitania. A civilian passanger deliver crossing the Atlantic became into bombed by using German forces and the passangers have been killed, and that brought about the US to connect the war and factor with Britain and France.
2016-12-18 11:24:15 · answer #5 · answered by moncalieri 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Germans destroyed an American ship.
2007-03-11 23:53:58 · answer #6 · answered by Tropango 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋