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American leaders explained their decision to enter World War I by saying they wanted towin the war to gain new territory.keep the oceans safe for shipping.punish those who made war on civilians.make the world safe for democracy.

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On April 2, 1917, US President Woodrow
Wilson asked Congress to declare war on
Germany in order to make the world safe
for democracy in what became known as
his War Message. For Wilson, as well as
for many American leaders, Germany's
militarism was a threat democracy to all
nations because its government was
violent to both their own domestic
constituents and to other democratic
nations, and, as declared by Wilson: "No
autocratic government could be trusted
to keep faith within it or observe its
covenants."
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