President Wilson demanded that the Germans stop unannounced submarine warfare; however, he didn’t believe the U.S. should take military action against Germany. Some Americans disagreed with this nonintervention policy, including former president Theodore Roosevelt
In March 1916, a German U-boat torpedoed a French passenger ship, the Sussex, killing dozens of people, including several Americans. Afterward, the U.S. threatened to cut diplomatic ties with Germany
In response, the U.S. severed diplomatic ties with Germany on February 3. During February and March, German U-boats sank a series of U.S. merchant ships, resulting in multiple casualties.
Here’s what I got from an article
The French looked at America as a place to fish and hunt which other Europeans looked at it as a place to settle. As opposed to settling, like many other Europeans, the French wanted to use America to sell fur and make a profit from it
It was isolationist.
The Americans were in the midst of rebuilding their economy that was now
improving after the Great Depression and the effects of World War II. Many did not want to go to another war but
after witnessing the atrocities committed by the Axis powers in Europe and
Asia, they realize that it would only be a matter of time before they would be
involved in the war. When the Japanese
bombed Pearl Harbor the U.S. officially joined the war on the side of the
allies.
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In 1913, President Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act which created the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States which would monitor and regulate the Dollar.
A/Allied forces captured a few strategic pacific islands from the Japanese and then used those reclaimed islands as bases from which to advance the remaining targets -Apex
