World War I?

Question

Can sobody help me out? What were the causes and effects of United States involvement in WWI?

Answer 1

The causes were the German practice of unrestricted submarine warfare on ships entering British waters.

The final cause was the Zimmerman Note, in which the Germans promised to help Mexico get back lands from the US in return for Mexico declaring war on the US.

Answer 2

The causes of US involvement in WWI were numerous. Unrestricted submarine warfare, the sinking of the Lusitania, the presence of German spies in American facilites. The final straw was the Zimmerman telegram, which appeared to describe a planned invasion of the US by Mexico aided by the Germans. Ironically, after the US tolerated the very real problems already escribed, the Zimmerman telegram is now acknowledged to be fraudulent, a deliberate ploy to involve the US in the war on the side of the Allies.

The result was that wave after wave of fresh soldiers poured into Europe against the nearly exhausted German army. The Germans had tried an all-out assault in a desperate attempt to crush the Allies before the Americans could arrive, but it failed. Against the comparatively unlimited manpower now on offer to the Allies from across the Atlantic, the exhausted Germans had no chance. Frankly, the involvement of the Americans won the war for the Allies. The difficult part was getting them to help in the first place.

Answer 3

"Frankly, the involvement of the Americans won the war for the Allies."

The millions of dead French, British and Russian were just garnish, eh?

The Americans had to make sure their loans to the British and French were repayed. Defeated nations do not repay their debts.

Answer 4

Go here and you will find very good links to everything listed below / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I

“The Great War ” redirects here. For other uses, see The Great War (disambiguation).
World War I

Clockwise from top: Trenches on the Western Front; a British Mark IV tank crossing a trench; Royal Navy battleship HMS Irresistible sinking after striking a mine at the Battle of the Dardanelles; a Vickers machine gun crew with gas masks, and a Sopwith Camel biplane
Date 28 July 1914 - 11 November 1918
Location Europe, Africa and the Middle East (briefly in China and the Pacific Islands)
Result Allied victory. End of the German Empire, the Russian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Creation of many new countries in Eastern and Central Europe.
Casus
belli Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (28 June) followed by Austrian declaration of war on Serbia (28 July) and Russian mobilisation against Austria-Hungary (29 July). Also nationalism, militarism and imperialism.

Combatants
Entente Powers:
Russia (13m)
France (8.2m)
United Kingdom (9.5m))
Italy (5.6m)
United States
et al. Central Powers:
Austria-Hungary (9m)
Germany(13.25m)
Ottoman Empire (2.85m)
Bulgaria (0.95m)
Commanders
Nicholas II
Aleksei Brusilov
Georges Clemenceau
Joseph Joffre
Ferdinand Foch
Robert Nivelle
Herbert H. Asquith
D. Lloyd George
Douglas Haig
John Jellicoe
Victor Emmanuel III
Luigi Cadorna
Armando Diaz
Woodrow Wilson
John Pershing
Franz Josef I
Conrad von Hötzendorf
Wilhelm II
Erich von Falkenhayn
Paul von Hindenburg
Reinhard Scheer
Erich Ludendorff
Mehmed V
Ä°smail Enver
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Ferdinand I
Casualties
Military dead:
5,525,000
Military wounded: 12,831,500
Military missing: 4,121,000[1]
Military dead:
4,386,000
Military wounded: 8,388,000
Military missing: 3,629,000[1]

Theatres of World War I
European (Balkans – Western Front – Eastern Front – Italian Front) – Middle Eastern (Caucasus – Mesopotamia – Sinai and Palestine – Gallipoli – Aden – Persia) – African (South-West Africa – West Africa – East Africa) – Asian and Pacific (German Samoa and New Guinea – Tsingtao) – Other (Atlantic Ocean – Mediterranean – Naval – Aerial)
World War I, also known as the Great War and "The War To End All Wars," was a global military conflict which took place primarily in Europe between 1914 and 1918. More than nine million soldiers and civilians died. The conflict had a decisive impact on the history of the 20th century.

The Allied Powers, led by France, Russia, the United Kingdom, Canada, Italy and, from 1917, the United States, defeated the Central Powers, led by Austria-Hungary, Germany and the Ottoman Empire.

The fighting that took place along the Western Front occurred along a system of trenches and fortifications separated by an area known as no man's land. These series of fortifications ran from the North Sea to Switzerland. This system of static trench warfare defined the war for many. On the Eastern Front, the vast eastern plains and limited rail network prevented a trench warfare stalemate. But the scale of the conflict was just as large. The Middle East and the Italian Front saw heavy fighting as well. Hostilities also occurred at sea and, for the first time, in the air.

The war caused the disintegration of four empires: the Austro-Hungarian, German, Ottoman and Russian. Germany lost its overseas empire and states such as Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Yugoslavia gained independence. The cost of waging the war set the stage for the breakup of the British Empire as well.

World War I marked the end of the old world order, which had emerged after the Napoleonic Wars. The result of the conflict was an important factor in the outbreak of World War II.

Contents
1 Causes <<<<<
1.1 Arms race
1.2 Plans, distrust and mobilization
1.3 Militarism and autocracy
1.4 Balance of Power
1.5 Economic imperialism
1.6 Trade barriers
1.7 Ethnic and political rivalries, both old and new
2 July crisis and declarations of war
3 Chronology
3.1 Opening hostilities
3.1.1 Confusion among the Central Powers
3.1.2 African campaigns
3.1.3 Serbian campaign
3.1.4 German forces in Belgium and France
3.1.5 Asia and the Pacific
3.2 Early stages
3.2.1 Trench warfare begins
3.3 Naval war
3.4 Southern theatres
3.4.1 Ottoman Empire
3.4.2 Italian participation
3.4.3 War in the Balkans
3.4.4 Fighting in India
3.5 Eastern Front
3.5.1 Initial actions
3.5.2 Ukrainian oppression
3.5.3 Russian Revolution
3.6 1917–1918
3.6.1 Entry of the United States
3.6.2 German Spring Offensive of 1918
3.6.3 New states under war zone
3.6.4 Allied victory: summer and autumn 1918
3.7 End of war
4 Prisoners of war
5 War crimes
5.1 Armenian Genocide
5.2 Rape of Belgium
6 Economics and manpower issues
7 Technology
8 Opposition to the war
9 Aftermath
9.1 Peace treaties
9.2 New national identities
9.3 Social trauma
10 Other names
11 Historical era
12 See also
12.1 Media
13 Notes
14 References
15 Literature and movies
15.1 Poetry and songs
15.2 Books
15.3 Films, plays, television series and mini-series
16 External links