Question

Write one or two paragraphs evaluating the policies of the United States to remain neutral while still supporting the Allies. Be sure to use the information from the introduction and from the Chamberlain and Roosevelt excerpts to support your thinking. Remember that in order to evaluate, you will need to summarize the information and also make a decision about the policies, using facts to justify your decision.

Answer 1

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When war broke out in Europe in 1914 President Wilson declared that the United States would follow a strict policy of neutrality. This was a product of a longstanding idea at the heart of American foreign policy that the United States would not entangle itself with alliances with other nations. Put simply the United States did not concern itself with events and alliances in Europe and thus stayed out of the war. Wilson was firmly opposed to war, and believed that the key aim was to ensure peace, not only for the United States but across the world. To that end he sent a leading aide, Colonel House, to Europe in the autumn of 1914 in an attempt to broker a peace deal.

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