"The ideals used to justify U.S involvement in World War I disguised real reasons for Wilson’s change in policy from neutrality
to war and, in fact, violated the traditional values of the American nation."Assess this statement and the reasons for the change in U.S policy in 1917 AND whether these reason were consistent with traditional American values.
Neutrality is experienced in Wilson's motto and in his opinion American foreign policy would not benefit from participation in the war. The road to war began just over two months earlier, when the German government tried to resume its war policy of underwater attacks without any restrictions on the coastal waters around the British Isles, including American ships. Given the ineffective armed neutrality that had been useless to defend ships against attacks by German submarines, on April 2 in a speech before Congress Wilson told parliamentarians that they should consider German actions as a declaration of war against United States people. Two days later the Senate voted in favor of Wilson's resolution and days later it was approved by the House of Representatives. It was then that on April 6, 1917, the president signed his official statement. The United States entered the First World War.
