“Wilson followed through on his threat to break off diplomatic relations. After the diplomatic relations with Germany had been broken, they continued to attack the U.S. had the right to attack Germany for trying to start the war. Germany had gone behind the U.S’s back and had tried to provoke war between the U.S. “In the event of this not succeeding, we make Mexico a proposal/alliance on the following basis: make war together, make peace together, generous financial support and an understanding on our part that Mexico is to reconquer the lost territory in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona.” (Digital History). The Germans had promised to give Mexico their lost land in the Mexican-American War back if they fought the U.S. Germany was willing to send spies, blow up U.S. realized that the Germans were going to great lengths to fight the U.S. ![]() But Germany were the first ones to attack, so the United States had the right to defend their land.Īfter Germany had tried to make Mexico join the war, there was nothing else the U.S. were not listening to Germany and were disobeying their orders to stay out of the war. as neutral in the war, when the US had been shipping a great amount of war materials to Germany’s enemies.” (Zinn, 362). Zinn believed that “it was unrealistic to expect that the Germans should treat the U.S. He accused the president of “cowardice and weakness” (American Nation, 363) because he did not act on this soon enough. Former president Theodore Roosevelt felt that Wilson was too lenient on the Germans and should have done more. They will try to retaliate for what happened. will respond to any damages to property or people killed. “The US will hold Germany to a strict accountability for property or lives lost.” (Digital History) . President Wilson gave a warning to the Germans after these attacks. But several of their ships had been bombed by the Germans. The United States had been transporting goods to their allies in Europe. were attacked first and had the right to defend their country. World War 1 was somewhat justifiable because it was a last resort, a defense from external attack, but it was not just because the peace treaty did not have a just resolution and was not fair to all sides. The peace treaty was signed in 1919 after the German emperor gave up the throne and Austria-Hungary collapsed. ![]() This war involved both trench and warfare chemical warfare. Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary fought against Russia, France, Great Britain and others. World War 1 was a war that started after the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary was assassinated.
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