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- Lusitania
- Germans decided to stop unrestricted warfare in September 1915 and America said okay lets not go to war
- Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
- Hey! You blew up my innocent civilians, if you don't stop this madness we will go to war!
- Sedition Act
- The telegram gave the ambassador a now-famous set of instructions: if the neutral United States entered the war on the side of the Allies, Von Eckardt was to approach Mexico’s president with an offer to forge a secret wartime alliance. Zimmermann sent the telegram in anticipation of resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare, an act the German government expected would likely lead to war with the U.S.
- Zimmerman Note
- The first U.S. infantry troops arrived on the European continent in June 1917; in October, the first American soldiers entered combat, in France.
- Germany has provoked us, so we will give them what they want. WAR!
- Alliances
- Let's join "The Allies" and make great alliances with Russia, Great Britain and France.
- In early 1917, the U.S. Army had just 133,000 members. That May, Congress passed the Selective Service Act, which led to some 2.8 million men being inducted into the U.S. military.
- Selective Service Act (Draft)
- LET'S PREPARE FOR WAR BOYS, WE NEED AS MANY OF YOU AS WE CAN!
- Now that we're at war, there might be anti-war activists that will try to make false statements that will interfere. Let's implement a law that will make it a crime to "willfully utter, print, write, or publish any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of the Government of the United States"
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