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Download 5c: Reasons for United States involvement in World War I
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5c: Reasons for United States involvement in World War I • Inability to remain neutral 5c: Reasons for United States involvement in World War I • German submarine warfare: Sinking of the Lusitania 5c: Reasons for United States involvement in World War I • United States economic and political ties to Great Britain 5c: Reasons for United States involvement in World War I • The Zimmermann Telegram 5c: Major Allied Powers • • • • • • British Empire France Russia Serbia Belgium United States 5c: Central Powers • • • • German Empire Austro-Hungarian Empire Bulgaria Ottoman Empire 5c: United States leadership as the war ended • At the end of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson prepared a peace plan known as the Fourteen Points that called for the formation of the League of Nations, a peacekeeping organization. 5c: United States leadership as the war ended • The United States decided not to join the League of Nations because the United States Senate failed to ratify the Treaty of Versailles.
