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Why did America enter World War I? •Congress saw that it "was the right time to jump in." •Germany declared a policy of unlimited submarine warfare and sank a ship with 139 Americans on board. •Germany was threatening to bomb America. •Britain convinced them of their need to join the Triple Entente.

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U.S. Entry into World War I, 1917. ... Wilson cited Germany's violation of its pledge to suspend unrestricted submarine warfare in the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean, as well as its attempts to entice Mexico into an alliance against the United States, as his reasons for declaring war.

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