U S involvement in WWI
... Why did the U.S. ... There were numerous motives for and against the U.S. involvement in WWI, but three main factors that drew the powerful nation in were the Germans unrestricted submarine warfare, U.S. ... Near the beginning of WWI president Wilson made it abundantly clear that Germany would be held to “strict accountability” for any loss of American ships or lives on their account. ... 655) The U.S. ... The first main reason that the United States entered the war was because of repeated German U-boat attacks, resulting in the death of American lives. On May 7th, 1915, a German U-boat sank the British liner called the Lusitania, which resulted in the death of 1,198 lives, 128 of which were American.