Question

Why did it take the United States until 1917 to enter World War I? Europeans asked the United States to remain neutral. The majority of Americans supported a policy of neutrality. Congress rejected President Wilson's proposal to start fighting. The government did not have enough money to fund mobilization.​

Answer 1

Answer: The majority of Americans supported a policy of neutrality.

Explanation:

"Woodrow Wilson did not want war.

When World War I erupted in Europe in 1914, the 28th U.S. president pledged neutrality, in sync with prevailing American public opinion.

But while Wilson tried to avoid war for the next three years, favoring instead a negotiated collective approach to international stability, he was rapidly running out of options. Tensions heightened as Germany tried to isolate Britain in 1915 and announced unrestricted attacks against all ships that entered the war zone around the British Isles.

In early April 1917, with the toll in sunken U.S. merchant ships and civilian casualties rising, Wilson asked Congress for “a war to end all wars” that would “make the world safe for democracy.” A hundred years ago, on April 6, 1917, Congress thus voted to declare war on Germany, joining the bloody battle—then optimistically called the Great War.”