The question refers to the book The Alchemist written by Paulo Coelho. Here while he was in the dessert, Santiago, seeing the hawks fighting has a vision, a glimpse that armies will ride through the oasis. The camel driver believes everyone can glimpse at the Soul of the World and takes Santiago's vision very seriously.
It allowed France and Russia to mobilize their militaries faster than Germany had thought possible.
Political Parties and Third Parties try to influence congress by expressing their ideas of what should be done for the welfare of whatever they believe in and by choosing a member of the group to run for president to even further expand their success in the belief they hold on to.<span />
The United States finally decided to join the World War I on side of the Allies mainly because of the following 2 reasons:
* The first one was the proposal made to Mexico in order to join the war against the allies, which meant the war was getting closer to American land.
* The second one was the German submarine attacks on American merchant ships.
After these two events took place, Woodrow Wilson the American president at the time talked to the Congress and requested it to declare war on Germany. And finally the Congress declared the war on April 6th, 1917.
