Reasons To Join World War One

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The United States entered World War One for multiple reasons. At first, they waited awhile before joining the war because they were still following isolationism. Some things almost pushed us into the war, we needed to defend ourselves against Germany. Other things that encouraged us to join the war were other countries asking for help. These reasons can be narrowed down more specifically, into main events. One main reason the U.S. joined the war was unrestricted submarine warfare with Germany. The Germans sunk a British passenger liner the “Lusitania” and killed 128 Americans. This gave us a need to protect our citizens and defend our country. This is shown by document 1, the front page of the New York Times. This incident affected the American