Debate:Should the United States have entered World War I?
Post Your Thoughts
yes...
Yes
Yes. Three major factors could contribute to this. One being that our allies were about to fall to the seemingly unstoppable German war machine. Two, the Germans and their allies were sinking ships carrying American citizens. We had every right in the world to go forward and protect not only our allies, but our own citizens. Three, we were experiencing a slump in our economy and needed something to drive the prices back up.
--Goose 13:24, 14 March 2007 (EDT)
Yes. Another reason not listed above is that in early 1917 Germany's foreign secretary, Arthur Zimmermann, sent a coded telegram to Germany's ambassador to Mexico promised that if Mexico declared war on the United States, Germany would help give back Mexico the territories it lost (Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico) in the Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo which ended the Mexican-American War. --Kdude50 16:54, 17 March 2007
no...
Because the Americans brought the so called 'Spanish flue' with them and that fearful disease managed to kill off nearly 20 million mostly young European citizens far more than were actually killed by the war. Of course it wasn't in any way meant. If the American soldiers had not been crowded together in their vast training camps perhaps the virus would not have developed and the many Americans who died from this pandemic would also have been saved.
