Effects Of Ww1 On American Literature

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The Events that Caused the US to Enter WWI and its Effects on American Literature
In WWI, 12 million letters were delivered to the front line each week, by the end of the war, 2 billion letters and 114 million parcels had been delivered. WWI was the cause of secret alliances between European countries, and the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. Only after the near exhaustion of European troops, and some key events did the US join the war, turning the tide in favor of the allies. The US entry into WWI was caused after public opinion of German plummeted from unrestricted warfare in war time waters resulting in the sinking of unarmed vessels like Lusitania, the Zimmerman telegram, economic interests, and German atrocities in …show more content…
The Germans especially had an interest in an alliance, because they knew that Mexico had resentment for America since the 1848 Mexican Cession. Arthur Zimmermann, Germany’s foreign minister, sent Mexico the Zimmermann Telegram, to join into a war against America in exchange for Germany paying all of Mexico's war costs, and the return of territory annexed by America in the Mexican Cession. The Mexican president, Venustiano Carranza, ordered a military commission to assess the possibility of a Mexican takeover. The Generals concluded that it would not be possible and the Mexico's best choice was to stay neutral in the war because, Mexico was in a civil war, Germany’s promise of funding was unreliable, if a mexican takeover was successful the would have trouble pacifying the the American civilians who were also well armed, and Mexico would risk tainting other foreign relationships. When the Telegram was first sent, British intelligence officers managed to intercept the telegram and decode it. They then sent to to Wilson Administration. When Americans First heard of the telegram the believed it to be forgaery by the British, however, any doubt of its integrity vanisher after Arthur Zimmermann said that he could not deny it, it was true, to an American …show more content…
Morgan, the owner of an American-based investment bank offered assisting Britain and France in wartime financing from 1914 through America’s entrance in 1917. Before the war broke out, the American steel industry was having difficulties and saw a decrease in profit. When the war broke out and the demand for weapons of war inevitable sky rocketed, leading to the American steel Company, Bethlehem Steel, to take advantage of the situation. By the end of the war Bethlehem Steel had forged 65,000 pounds of military products, 70 million pounds of armor plate, 1.1 billion pounds of steel for shells, 20.1 million pounds of artillery ammunition for France and Britain. Domestically, Bethlehem Steel produced 60% of American weaponry, and 40% of the artillery shells used in the
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