Question

The Joint Resolution below was passed by Congress on April 6, 1917.

Answer 1

Submarine attacks as the Germans were destroying their ships to give Britain supplies

Answer 2

Answer:

C. Submarine attacks on American Ships

Explanation:

Four days earlier, on April 2, President Woodrow Wilson addressed a joint session of Congress to request a declaration of war on Imperial Germany.  Among his reasons for war was Germany’s failure to comply with its promise to halt unrestricted submarine warfare in the North Atlantic. Continued German attacks upon merchant shipping brought Wilson to insist that “warfare against commerce is a warfare against mankind.”