Question

American foreign policy during the first of Woodrow Wilson's terms of office can be

described as isolationist in that the United States refrained from getting involved in European affairs after the outbreak of World War I ("The Great War*). By April, 1917, however, the United States declared war on Germany and began sending the first of what Would amount to 4.5 million American service personnel to Europe. Describe how the war began in Europe, who the major allied nation-states/empires were (specify the Central Powers and the Triple Entente), What event triggered the war, the impact of the Russian Revolution on the fighting on the Western Front, the nature of the fighting (how was it fought, what technology was used-be
specific), how the United States was puiled into the war (what specific events caused this) and
how arrival of the Americans impacted the war, and how the war ended. In your response also
examine the significance of the following: the Roosevelt Corollary, the Zimmerman Telegram,
Germany's resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare, trench warfare, Wilson's Fourteen Points, and Henry Cabot Lodge.

Answer 1

The US was pulled into the war after the sinking of the Lusitania by German U-boats.

The arrival of the Americans lifted the long standing stalemate of the western front, and allowed America to have a big role on the affairs of the peace deal.

The Zimmerman Telegram was a telegram to mexico to invade US territory.