Was the United States a neutral power in the years leading up to its entry into World War I?  Why?
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The United States took a neutral position before entry into WWI.  Wilson had initially run on the platform of the man who would keep the U.S. out of the war.  The government also felt that entry onto the British side would divide the nation (with the U.S.'s large german population.)  The Zimmerman telegram would change all that, of course....
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Here is a summary...but I assure you there are great resources online:\n\n At the start of the war, President Wilson had declared the neutrality of the United States. Most Americans opposed US involvement in the European war. But the sinking of the Lusitania and other German actions against civilians drew America sympathies to the Allies. German military leaders believed that they could still win the war by cutting off British supplies. They expected their U-boats to starve Britain into surrendering within a few months, longer before the US had fully prepared for war. Tension between the US and Germany increased after the British intercepted and decoded a message from Germany's foreign minister, Arthur Zimmermann, the German ambassador to Mexico. The message known as the "Zimmermann note", revealed a German plot to persuade Mexico to go to war against the United States. The British gave the message to Wilson, and it was published in the US early in March. Americans were further enraged after U-boats sank several US cargo ships.
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World War I\n\nWEB LINKS\n\nPRIMARY SOURCE DOCUMENTS.\n\nFantastic Resources.\n\nhttp://www.historyteacher.net/APEuroCourse/WebLinks/WebLinks-WorldWar1.htm\n\nWorld War I\n\nhttp://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWusaG.htm\n\nAlthough the USA had strong ties with Britain, Wilson was concerned about the large number of people in the country who had been born in Germany and Austria. Other influential political leaders argued strongly in favour of the USA maintaining its isolationist policy. This included the pacifist pressure group, the American Union Against Militarism.\n\nhttp://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWW.htm\n\nhttp://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook38.html\n\nRead and listen to stories of the War from the people who lived it. Explore diaries, letters, scrapbooks, newspaper cuttings, photos and keepsakes.\n\nhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/worldwarone/\n\nhttp://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/firstworldwar/\n\nhttp://www.wfa-usa.org/new/links.cfm\n\nAn Internet History of The Great War\n\nhttp://www.worldwar1.com/\n\nhttp://www.wfa-usa.org/new/lcav.htm\n\nhttp://www.theaerodrome.com/\n\nGood luck\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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Your question is kind of confusing because I don't know if you want information regarding the Central Powers (the triple alliance) or the Triple Entente.  What I can tell you is that anything you want to know about WWI you can get at this website http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWW.htm
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America got involved in World War I because of the sinking of the Lusitania and the Zimmerman telegram. (Germany asked Mexico to attack the US and Germany promised they could have Texas and California back!)
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At the beginning of 1917 many Americans were strongly against becoming involved in the First World War. Then, on March 1, 1917, newspapers all over the US printed a sensational story. The story claimed that Arthur Zimermann, the German Foreign Secretary, had tries to persuade Mexico and Japan to attack the US. It all began on January 16. Zimmermann had sent a secret telegram to the German ambassador in Mexico. The telegram told the ambassador to invite the Mexican government to sign an alliance with Germany. The idea was that if the US went to war with Germany, the Mexicans should attack the Americans from the south. Mexico's reward would be the return of all the lands it had lost to the US in 1848. \nZimmermann's telegram was intercepted and decoded by British agents. On February 24, when Americans were already angry at Germany for starting submarine attacks again, the British gave Wilson a copy of the telegram. Wilson was furious. He told the newspapers. People who wanted to keep the US out of the war and those who favored Germany, said that the telegram was a forgery, a British trick. But their efforts to claim that story was untrue collapsed when Zimmermann himself said: "It is true."\n\nThe Zimmermann telegram turned American opinion more strongly in favor of the Allies. This was especially true in the previously uninterested western parts of the country. These were the areas that would have been threatened most if Zimmermann's plan had worked.
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WWI started in 1914 with the assisination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Serbia, US military involment started in 1917\nWWII (I assume that what you mean) started in 1939 with Germany invading Poland, US commits troops in 1941, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor
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The short answer is 'No'. I think it is hard to define what you put as "Anglo-American" powers.  Do you mean the West, or specifically England and the United States?  In any event, we must realize that neither the West nor the Islamic world is a monolithic entity.  There are widely varrying strains and currents throughout both.  From a strategic perspective, the US is unrivaled.  From an ideological perspective, there are ongoing shifts toward conservativism and fundementalism in both the West and the Arab world.  These shifts are largely reactionary to the rise of globalism.  Ultimately the historical trend toward openness and integration, driven by a global economy, will overcome zenophobic impulses in both the West and the entire Islamic world.
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First, understand the Monroe Doctrine, formulated by President Monroe: that the US is the dominant power in the Americas, and that European powers should not interfere in and dominate the countries in North and South America.\n\nThe Roosevelt Collary is that the US would become a police power in the region, and that the US *would* interfere. It's related to the statement about speaking softly and carrying a big stick.\n\nIt was replaced by FDR, with the Good Neighbor Policy, in 1934.
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U.S. entered WW2 after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Almost immediately after the attack, the congress almost unanimously declared war on Japan. (only one person was against the war).  \n\nWhen U.S. declared war on Japan, Germany declared war on U.S. So, U.S. unanimously declared war on Germany. \n\nA) Italy and Japan were allied with Germany\n\nRussia was also allied with Germany but Hitler broke the Hitler-Stalin Pact and attacked Russia. Russia joined the Allied forces afterwards.\n\nPoland was never allied with Germany.\n\nAustria and Hungary were allied with Germany in WW1.
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America was a super power during the 1st and 2nd world wars but now they are many countries who are coming up with defensive and attacking schemes for their own country. during the world wars the super powers were UK,America and Russia
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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt  wanted to help the allies as a neutral nation.  After Sunday,7 December 1941 Pearl Harbor attack by Japan;the next day the Germans declared war against the US . America legally and officially declared war on Thursday,11 December 1941.  Europe would get help first and then Japan was second.\n\n\n\nGood night y'all.
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In an obtuse sense...\n\nWilson's unwise venture into the first World War did allow for the punitive Versailles treaty which may be said to have led in part to the second World War.\n\nOur non-membership in the League of Nations helped to render that organization powerless.\n\nHitler did start the shooting war in '39 and fired the first several million rounds.  Britain & France decided to join the party 3 days later.  The Poland they sought to save was re-arranged by Stalin.\n\nRoosevelt's communist leaning diplomacy was certainly responsible for provoking Japan to attack the US and for inducing Germany to declare war on the US thus making the second World War truly worldwide.\n\nRoosevelt's condescending to Stalin left Eastern Europe without Levi's for 50 years and us paying the taxes for the sillyness of the cold war.
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In the first World War, which began in 1914 America didn't join until 1917. It joined right at the end, when France was getting beaten on by the Germans and helped win though it's expected because America's troops were fresh and new.French troops had been fighting endlessly in their territory for 3 years already. \nIn WWII, America joined since the beginning in the fight against the fascism of Germany,Italy,& Japan which later included the Soviet Union as well until it was betrayed by Germany.It didn't really take a great part in it itself until Pearl Harbor, where Japan attacked us.
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The answer to this is complex and depends on whose history you read. However, the European side of WWII was caused solely by Adolf Hitler's quest for power.  He used tactics such as the Dolchstoss Legend, which stemmed from the "stab in the back" sentiments of the Treaty of Versailles, to gain power.  These tactics gained him wide support from Germans who were still bitter from their loss of WWI.  It also rallied anti-semitism because this legend, in part, blammed the Jews for the loss.  Initially Great Britain and France followed a policy of appeasement towards Hitler, allowing him to take over former German lands such as Czechoslovokia.  However, Hitler kept wanting more. WWII started after Hitler invaded Poland in September 1939.  Great Britain and France, allies of Poland, declared war two days later. \n\nOf course, if you look at WWII from the point of view of Asia, the war started much earlier.  According to China, the war started when Japan invaded them and the infamous Rape of Nanking occurred.  \n\nThe US became involved initially with the Cash and Carry policy developed in 1939.  The US, still struggling with the economic depression, used this to remain neutral but to fuel the need for industrial jobs.  After a while, though, Great Britain and France could no longer afford to pay the US for goods and the US enacted the Lend-Lease program in 1941.  This program allowed for much the same, but the Allies were not paying for the goods immediately.  Therefore, it could be argued that since the US only provided goods to Allied forces, we were involved in the war since 1939. \n\nHowever, most pinpoint US involvement as occuring shortly after  December 7, 1941 (the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese).    Nazi Germany declared war on the United States on December 11, with Hitler wanting to declare war on US before we could declare war on anyone. The United States was fuming at the Japanese, but the president decided to focus more on the European front first, making that top priority.
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I think it's because Franklin D. Roosevelt was trying to focus more on the domestic problems (since it was right after the Great Depression) and at that point i'm pretty sure the US was taking an Isolationist standpoint in world affairs, which means that they weren't getting involved in anything overseas (pretty much the opposite of today).\n\nGood luck, hope this helps?
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Well, key isolationist move was Senate refusal to ratify the Treaty of Versailles, which would have dedicated US troops to support the League of Nations, which was proposed by President Wilson.  This kept the US out of the League, which was a failure (before being resurrected as the United Nations which is, as we know, also a failure).