Posted on 04/23/2011 8:53:56 PM PDT by freepguy
I'm trying to get the facts that show why the USA got into WW1. As I can tell, Wilson was president. The US was neutral...did not want to get involved. Britian and the Allied Powers were losing the war against the Central Powers. The Balfour Declaration promised a Jewish state in Palestine. The Lusitana was armed and ordered to attack German U-boats. Propaganda was created to convince American populace that Germany needed to be conqered.
Can anyone help me get more info on the subject?
Thanks. FG
Can anyone help me get more info on the subject?
Thanks. FG
Zimmermann Telegram
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimmermann_Telegram
In before “Bush’s fault.”
Well, I thought it was a combination of the Lusitania and the attack on Pearl Harbor. I’ve written about Pearl Harbor before, why I’ve come to believe it was expected or provoked.
The U.S. was inclined to maintain a fragmented Europe.
Whoops, I got my wars mixed up.
wilson the progressives wanted like all liberals to create utopia on esrth.
You mean when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
Yes, they did, but it wasn’t over, and soon heavy industry made it possible for all people to have their needs met in a free marketplace.
Yes, that must be it lol. I really stepped into it, didn't I?
The Japanese torpedoed the Lusitania as ordered by Bush’s Blackwater team...that’s what liberals tell me.
Lusitiania was not a direct issue. It was sunk in May 1915, which was about two years before the US entered the war.
The uproar over the sinking led to Germany temporarily abandoning “unrestricted” submarine warfare, at least in theory. This gave UK an enormous advantage, as they could blockade and starve Germany with surface ships. Germany could only do the same to UK with subs.
In late 1916, early 1917 the German Navy “guaranteed” the Kaiser that they could bring Britain to her knees if allowed to use the U-boats without restrictions. This pissed off America, and the Zimmerman telegram put icing on the cake.
BTW, in late 1916 the Germans weren’t losing the war, but they weren’t winning either. The war was a stalemate, and the sub attacks were an attempt to break the stalemate.
The Balfour Declaration was very much a side issue at the time. Hardly anybody paid any attention to it. Anyway, it was Nov. of 17, quite some time after America jumped in.
Forget it. You’re rolling!
Germany attacked and sunk a number of U.S. Merchant ships, killing Americans.
The Neo-Cons got us into it.
No, the Germans bombed Pearl Bailey.
LOL, I was about to post about the German attack on Pearl Harbor! *\;^)
You guys stop it.
Yes, the Zimmermann Note, along with the Germans re-instating unrestricted U-boat warfare just prior to the Zimmermann Note being made public, caused U.S. entry into WWI.
What got the U.S. into WW1?
An arrogant, Anglophilic University elitist from New jersey whom we had the great misfortune to elect President - Woodrow Wilson.
Did the Germans send the Zimmerman Telegram?
Sure.
However, check the Wikipedia article on it:
“The Telegram was not an isolated case of German-Mexican collaboration, for Germany had long sought to incite a war between Mexico and the U.S., which would have tied down American forces and slowed the export of American arms to the Allies.”
INTERESTING.
The Wilson government, while maintaining “neutrality” was engaged in exclusively arming one of the two combatants BEFORE the Zimmerman Telegram.
Wilson was an avowed Anglophile. He actually allowed British agents to patrol American ports WHILE THE US WAS STILL A NEUTRAL, and STOP shipments to the Central Powers.
He ACTUALLY FELT that American citizens had a right to book passage on British ships WHICH VERY WELL MIGHT BE CARRYING MUNITIONS TO BRITAIN for use against Germany, and the Germans should not be allowed to sink such ships.
He did NOTHING about the British practice of flying AMERICAN FLAGS on British ships carrying war material to Britain, which was deliberately done to antagonize the Germans into making a mistake and attack genuine American Ships.
Bungling by a lying liberal Democrat elitist and his administration dragged the US into a war overseas which was none of our business.
European powers had been killing each other quite well for centuries with no help from us and by our throwing our weight on the side of the Brits, we upset the balance of power and set the stage for an unjust peace, Adolph Hitler and a Second World War.
But THAT is a part of the story you will NEVER hear in our liberal classrooms.
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