World War I

World War I & 1920s
The assassination of the heir of the Austro-Hungarian’s empire by a Serb-nationalist, would unleash a bloody war called Great War, later also known as World War I. Immediately,the European powers lined up in a conflict that would be bordered by two large groups, and the war would begin to involve practically the whole continent. The two groups were The Central Powers:Germany, Austria, Turkey and Bulgaria, on the other side, The Allies: Britain, France, Russia, Japan and Italy. At the outbreak of the conflict, U.S. chose to remain neutral, which was the centralslogan of the re-election campaign of Woodrow Wilson in 1916 (World War I and Its Aftermath 157). We’ll travel through the course of the events that led America into the conflict, a final peace treatyand America’s relationship with Europe in the 1920’s.
U.S. neutrality policy was compromised when Germany announced unrestricted submarine warfare against the British fleet and all ships that weredirected to this nation. Germany strategy would lead to the defeat of Great Britain in six months. United States had already expressed its strong opposition to unrestricted submarine warfare because itviolated their rights as a neutral power, meanwhile Americans still preferred to stay out of the conflict. However, a second episode would increase support for intervention in the war, when PresidentW. Wilson released an intercepted telegram from German Foreign Minister, Arthur Zimmerman, directed to German Minister in Mexico (Goldfied 643). U.S. government learned that the Germans werepreparing a direct attack against the United States. The text was referring to an alliance between Mexico and Germany, and in return for this gesture, Germany would help in recovering Texas, New Mexico andArizona. In this scenario, US decided on April 6, 1917 officially entered World War I.
The war ended on November 11, 1918 at 11am (World War I 1914-1918 4) with the Allies as the victorious group....