1. The United States took on many more international commitments and obligations and without suprise to many, the US entered the war in 1917. Europe had become a mess of countries with many different allies of each other across borders which induced a collapse of the European peace. Woodrow Wilson could not remain neutral because he had strong ties with Britain and continued to trade with them although Germany had a blockade set up so they could not, making the US an allied power. The Germans then attacked the British ship, the Lusitania, enraging America and making them no longer neutral. The US had become prepared to participate in modern warfare over seas by growing their military forces to be very large very fast.
2.The question of whether America should make military and economic preparations for war and whether or not America should even consider entering the war were hot debate topics.
3. For the US, the involvment in WW1 was small a military struggle, but it was brief, decisive, and without great cost. Only 112,000 American soldiers died in the conflict, half of them
from infl uenza and other diseases rather than in combat.
4. From US participation in WWI, the economy was booming after the war was over, especially industrially. It sparked the years of prosperity that would follow in the roaring 20s and the war propelled the United States into a position of international prominence.
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