Overview (28 Jul 1914 Jahr – 11 Nov 1918 Jahr)

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On July 28, 1914, Europe breaks out in war after the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. This incident triggered an explosion of demands and counterdemands. Within months, a complex set of entangling and secret treaties and alliances engulfed much of the world in war. President Wilson promises to support neutrality during the war, he believed that the underlying cause of the war was the militant nationalism of the major European powers. With nearly one in every seven Americans having been born in the countries at war, Wilson believed the United States must remain neutral. Because the American economy was in a recession when the war began, however, and the British and French were eager to buy American products, the administration interpreted neutral duties in ways that tended to favor the Allies. When Germany retaliated by using submarines to blockade the British Isles, Wilson refused to ban US travel on British or American passenger ships or to cut off arms sales to the warring nations, as the Germans demanded.

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