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1 American Isolationism
Motives for Isolationism Tradition of Neutrality in European Affairs War would tax economic & human resources War was Uncivilized & Un-democratic Ethnic Diversity Large Irish & German Populations Pacifist Movement Women Socialists

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3 U.S. Entry into World War I
Cause #1: Heavy Trade w/ Allies

4 Cause #2: Freedom of the Seas
Un-restricted Submarine Warfare Sinking of the Lusitania

5 Cause #3: The Zimmerman Note
Germany would support Mexican claims to re-gain American Southwest if Mexico allied w/ Germany

6 Cause #4: To Make the World Safe for Democracy
“…[T]here can be no assured security for the democratic governments of the world. We are now about the accept gauge of battle with this natural foe to liberty... We are glad, now that we see the facts with no veil of false pretence about them, to fight thus for the ultimate peace of the world and for the liberation of its peoples, the German peoples included: for the rights of nations great and small and the privilege of men everywhere to choose their way of life and of obedience. The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.” Woodrow Wilson, 1917

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