world war one?

Question

why did the united states enter the war? and who did they ally with?*5 points for best answer

Answer 1

Entry of the United States
Main article: American Expeditionary Force

President Wilson before Congress, announcing the break in official relations with Germany on February 3, 1917The United States so far had pursued a policy of isolation, avoiding participation in the conflict whilst trying to broker a peace. This resulted in an increase in tensions with both Berlin and London. When a German U-boat sank the British liner Lusitania in 1915, a large passenger liner with 128 Americans aboard, the United States President Woodrow Wilson vowed "America was too proud to fight", and demanded an end to attacks on passenger ships. Germany complied. Wilson unsuccessfully tried to mediate a compromise settlement. Wilson also repeatedly warned that America would not tolerate unrestricted submarine warfare, as it was in violation to American ideas of human rights. Wilson was under great pressure from former president Teddy Roosevelt, who denounced German "piracy" and Wilson's cowardice. In January 1917, the Germans announced they would resume unrestricted submarine warfare. Berlin's proposal to Mexico to join the war as Germany's ally against the U.S. was exposed in February, angering American opinion. (see Zimmermann Telegram). After German submarines attacked several American merchant ships, sinking three, Wilson requested that Congress declare war on Germany, which it did on April 6, 1917.[10] The U.S. House of Representatives approved the war resolution 373-50, the U.S. Senate 82-6, with opposition coming especially from German American districts such as Wisconsin. The U.S. declared war on Austria-Hungary in December 1917.

The United States was never formally a member of the Allies but an "Associated Power". Significant numbers of fresh American troops arrived in Europe in the summer of 1918, arriving at the rate of around 10,000 men per day. Germany miscalculated that it would be many more months before large numbers of American troops could be sent to Europe, and that, in any event, the U-boat offensive would prevent their arrival. In fact, not a single American infantryman lost his life due to German U-boat activity[citation needed].

The United States Navy sent a battleship group to Scapa Flow to join with the British Grand Fleet, several destroyers to Queenstown, Ireland, and several submarines to the Azores and to Bantry Bay, Ireland, to help guard convoys. Several regiments of U.S. Marines were also dispatched to France. However, it would be some time before the United States would be able to contribute significant personnel to the Western and Italian fronts.

The British and French wanted the United States to send its infantry to reinforce their troops already on the battle lines, and not waste scarce shipping on bringing over supplies. Because of this, the Americans primarily used British and French artillery, aircraft and tanks. However, General John J. Pershing, American Expeditionary Force (AEF) commander, refused to break up American units to be used as reinforcements for British Empire and French units (though he did allow African American combat units to be used by the French). Pershing ordered the use of frontal assaults, which had been discarded by that time by British Empire and French commanders because of the large loss of life sustained throughout the war.


[edit] German Spring Offensive of 1918
Main article: Spring Offensive

For most of World War I, Allied forces were stalled at trenches on the Western FrontGerman General Erich Ludendorff drew up plans (codenamed Operation Michael) for a 1918 general offensive along the Western Front. This Spring Offensive sought to divide the British and French armies in a series of feints and advances. The German leadership hoped to strike a decisive blow against the enemy before significant United States forces could be deployed. Before the offensive even began, Ludendorff made what may have been a fatal mistake by leaving the elite Eighth Army in Russia and sending over only a small portion of the German forces from the east to aid the offensive in the west.[citation needed]

Operation Michael opened on March 21, 1918, with an attack against British forces near the rail junction at Amiens. Ludendorff’s intention was to split the British and French armies at this point. German forces achieved an unprecedented advance of 60 kilometers (40 mi). For the first time since 1914, maneuvering was achieved on the battlefield.

British and French trenches were defeated using novel infiltration tactics, also called Hutier tactics after General Oskar von Hutier. Up to this time, attacks had been characterised by long artillery bombardments and continuous-front mass assaults. However, in the Spring Offensive, the German Army used artillery briefly and infiltrated small groups of infantry at weak points, attacking command and logistics areas and surrounding points of serious resistance. More heavily armed infantry then destroyed these isolated positions. German success relied greatly on this tactic.

The front line had now moved to within 120 kilometers (75 mi) of Paris. Three super-heavy Krupp railway guns advanced and fired 183 shells on Paris, which caused many Parisians to flee the city. The initial stages of the offensive were so successful that German Kaiser Wilhelm II declared March 24 a national holiday. Many Germans thought victory was close; however, after heavy fighting, the German offensive was halted. Infiltration tactics had worked very well, but the Germans, lacking tanks or motorised artillery, were unable to consolidate their positions. The British and French learned that if they fell back a few miles, the Germans would be disorganised and vulnerable to counterattack.

American divisions, which Pershing had sought to field as an independent force, were assigned to the depleted French and British Empire commands on March 28. A supreme command of Allied forces was created at the Doullens Conference, in which British Field Marshal Douglas Haig handed control of his forces over to Ferdinand Foch.

Following Operation Michael, Germany launched Operation Georgette to the north against the Channel ports. The Allies halted this with less significant territorial gains to Germany. The German Army to the south then conducted Operations Blücher and Yorck, broadly towards Paris. Next, Operation Marne was launched on July 15 as an attempt to encircle Reims, beginning the Second Battle of the Marne. The resulting Allied counterattack marked their first successful offensive of the war. By July 20, the Germans were back at their Kaiserschlacht starting lines, having achieved nothing. Following this last phase of the ground war in the West, the German Army never again held the initiative. German casualties between March and April 1918 were 270,000, including many of the highly trained stormtroopers. Their best soldiers were gone just as the Americans started arriving.

Meanwhile, Germany was crumbling internally as well. Anti-war marches were a frequent occurrence and morale within the army was at low levels. Industrial output had fallen 53% from 1913.

Answer 2

Only 5?

Well, believe it or not, the German navy was not very active during World War 1 nor was Germany "all that" in their naval prowess...but the Germans lucked out and won the only major battle, the Battle of Jutland, which was fought on May 31, 1916. The "allied" fleet (made up of MANY different countries against Germany--but I'm not sure which country flexed their arms at this point) blocked Germany in the North Sea...and Germany's reply was to assert that they would sink any Allied ship that they came across. Well, the US told the Germans that they were to go out no further than the Baltic Sea or else the US would have to spank them. Alas, despite the Germany economy and their people getting really sick and tired of trying to take over Europe, in 1917 Germany got a little spunky (or concerned, since the US was supplying Allied forces--despite their, at the time, non-involvement) and decided to advance beyond the Baltic and sink various American ships carrying munitions and reinforcements, thereby drawing the U.S. into the war. The US was in WW1 prior to 1917--don't believe otherwise...Since the "Black Hand" assassinated Austrian Archduke Frances Ferdinand and his wife and they were "bleeding the French white" the US had many many interests in this war....especially since there was a great number of immigrants from Europe that made up a GREAT portion of the US population. Fortunately, for Europe---if it wasn't for the US involvement, Europe would have been...German.

The US was never allied with anyone, on paper. Pres. Wilson and the old boy network decided that the US should not really side with anyone, just so they could effectively wash their hands of anything, it the kitchen got too hot. Or, if Germany, in fact, succeeded in their Alexandrian (taking over the world--i.e., Alexander the Great) movement. Although, the US did "side" with the Allied forces.

Answer 3

According to Wikipedia:
US entry into the war is also explained in the linked site. The jist of the story is Germany's submarine warfare sinking American merchant ships forced congress to declare war. I believe I've read somewhere that Germany was sinking US merchant ships due to suspicions that they were providing supplies and other necessities to the Allied Powers.


US was part of the Allied Powers:
"The Allied Powers, led by France, Russia, the British Empire, and later, Italy and the United States" defeated the Central Powers.

Answer 4

We were with the Allied forces against the Axis of the Ottoman Empire and Germany, and Austria- Hungary. The Allies were Russia, England, France and later Italy. The US came in due to continued German U boat attacks on a merchant shipping.

Answer 5

The U.S. entered the war in 1917 after Wilson felt that Germany had violated "The Freedom of the Seas."

The U.S. allied with England and France.

Answer 6

The Woodrow Wilson administration was under an obligation to Paul Warburg, an agent of the Rothschild clan who came to America and pushed for the 1913 imposition of the income tax and the creation of the Federal Reserve. Warburg had access to the almost unlimited amounts of Rothschild money, and contributed greatly to Woodrow Wilson's re-election campaign.

Woodrow Wilson went in with a promise to keep America out of the war, but betrayed his promise. Meanwhile, Britain had promised the Arabs, who were fighting in Britain's cause against Germany and Turkey, that when the war was over they would have a unified Arab state extending from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf. They too betrayed their promise.

This promise to the Arabs, conveyed to them by T. E. Lawrence, was betrayed in 1917 when the British succumbed to the Balfour Agreement, promoting the pet cause of Lord Rothschild, triumphalist political Zionism. This ambitious plan should not be confused with the honorable cultural Zionism advocated by Israel Zangwill, unfortunately defeated by the Chaim Weizman party at the First Zionist Congress, Basle, 1896.

So the Rothschilds got what they wanted - support for aggressive political Zionist colonization of Palestine. Britain, in 1916, was in danger of losing to the Kaiser, and Woodrow Wilson, already compromised by Paul Warburg's influence, rescued them by sending the AEF to Europe.

That's how America got into WW1. Not a pretty story.

Answer 7

President Woodrow Wilson reluctantly entered WWI because of the German submarines attacking the Lusitania, and then other ships carrying American citizens. He could see that Germany was cutting off America's trade with England and France.

Answer 8

US allied with France, The British Empire, Russia and Italy (also called the Allied Powers) against the Central Powers - Austria-Hungary, Germany and the Ottoman Empire.

Why the US entered the war-
The United States so far had pursued a policy of isolation, avoiding participation in the conflict whilst trying to broker a peace. This resulted in an increase in tensions with both Berlin and London. When a German U-boat sank the British liner Lusitania in 1915, a large passenger liner with 128 Americans aboard, the United States President Woodrow Wilson vowed "America was too proud to fight", and demanded an end to attacks on passenger ships. Germany complied. Wilson unsuccessfully tried to mediate a compromise settlement. Wilson also repeatedly warned that America would not tolerate unrestricted submarine warfare, as it was in violation to American ideas of human rights. Wilson was under great pressure from former president Teddy Roosevelt, who denounced German "piracy" and Wilson's cowardice. In January 1917, the Germans announced they would resume unrestricted submarine warfare. Berlin's proposal to Mexico to join the war as Germany's ally against the U.S. was exposed in February, angering American opinion. (see Zimmermann Telegram). After German submarines attacked several American merchant ships, sinking three, Wilson requested that Congress declare war on Germany, which it did on April 6, 1917.[10] The U.S. House of Representatives approved the war resolution 373-50, the U.S. Senate 82-6, with opposition coming especially from German American districts such as Wisconsin. The U.S. declared war on Austria-Hungary in December 1917.

The United States was never formally a member of the Allies but an "Associated Power". Significant numbers of fresh American troops arrived in Europe in the summer of 1918, arriving at the rate of around 10,000 men per day. Germany miscalculated that it would be many more months before large numbers of American troops could be sent to Europe, and that, in any event, the U-boat offensive would prevent their arrival. In fact, not a single American infantryman lost his life due to German U-boat activity[citation needed].

The United States Navy sent a battleship group to Scapa Flow to join with the British Grand Fleet, several destroyers to Queenstown, Ireland, and several submarines to the Azores and to Bantry Bay, Ireland, to help guard convoys. Several regiments of U.S. Marines were also dispatched to France. However, it would be some time before the United States would be able to contribute significant personnel to the Western and Italian fronts.

The British and French wanted the United States to send its infantry to reinforce their troops already on the battle lines, and not waste scarce shipping on bringing over supplies. Because of this, the Americans primarily used British and French artillery, aircraft and tanks. However, General John J. Pershing, American Expeditionary Force (AEF) commander, refused to break up American units to be used as reinforcements for British Empire and French units (though he did allow African American combat units to be used by the French). Pershing ordered the use of frontal assaults, which had been discarded by that time by British Empire and French commanders because of the large loss of life sustained throughout the war.

Answer 9

The us entered the war cuz germany kept attacking ships containing innoccent US civilains. they allied with the Allied Powers which were- France, Great Britain & Russia.

Answer 10

They wanted to take part in the Victory Parade :)

Answer 11

http://www.animatedatlas.com/ww1/ww1narration.html


that is the website i found if you look about just over 1/2 the way down you will see the subtitle
Entrance of America
i think that has all you need.