neutrality ends
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Neutrality Ends. British Blockade . Blockade along German coast to prevent goods, weapons and contraband from getting through “contraband” extended to mean food! Results American ships carrying German goods just stopped German’s couldn’t get their food = famine U-boats! . - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Neutrality Ends
British Blockade Blockade along German coast to prevent
goods, weapons and contraband from getting through› “contraband” extended to mean food!
Results› American ships carrying German goods just
stopped › German’s couldn’t get their food = famine› U-boats!
German U-Boats Counter-blockade!
Any ship found in waters around Britain would be sunk
Submarine warfare
News to the U.S. flashed
Lusitania May 7th, 1915
U-boat sinks British liner Lusitania
128 Americans killed
“This sinking…is not war; it is…organized murder and no language is too strong for it. It is getting to be too much to ask America to keep out when Americans are drowned as part of a European war
http://www.history.com/videos/u-boats-sink-the-lusitania-in-1915#u-boats-sink-the-lusitania-in-1915
Still neutral… Even after, Wilson said NO to war!
Wilson protested Germany – they agreed to not sink any more liners. › Oops The Sussex was sunk in 1916 killing
Americans
Election of 1916 Wilson re-
elected › “He Kept Us Out
of War”
Election results shifted from hour to hour
Events leading to America entering the
war….
Telegram With a partner, examine the telegram
handed out. › Who is it from? › Who is it going to? › What does it say?
Zimmerman Telegram Sent by German foreign minister to
German ambassador in Mexico
Intercepted by British agents
Mexico go to war with U.S. and Germany will support you and give you land
Then… Sinking of four unarmed American
ships
Russia overthrows czarist regime
So supporters of war can say we are going toward against brutal monarchies!
Declaring War April 2, 1917
Wilson delivered his war resolution › Passed!
U.S. troops to go to war!
Propaganda of WWI Now that we are in war, Propaganda
starts circulating like crazy
Now, we will look at some of these documents!