1. Why did the US get involved in WWI?
o What major events had shapes its readiness to participate in global issues?
o How had it become prepared to participate in modern warfare overseas?
2. What aspects of US involvement were the subject of debate?
3. For the US, what was involvement in WWI like?
4. How was the US affected by its participation in WWI?
1+2. The US got involved from a general perspective due to the trade that was had with a lot of members that were currently in the war. And an even more general perspective than that is we had a number of allies in the war that wanted our help. On a more specific point as to when and the straw that broke the camel's back it was when a German U-Boat blew up a US trade ship full of civilians that after a large scale debate in America decided to join the war. Overall America was not ready to join the war, at the time we had a relatively small army and were missing a large quantity of technological equipment. however due to the large disapproval of Germany's actions by US citizens people quickly supported the army to the best of their ability due to the outrage within the country.
3. Due to the small army when they first joined the US resorted to higher taxation and a request for loans from their citizens to quickly make up for their shortcomings in the military.
4. It launched them to global power due to the quickly booming economy and industry, however due to the rapid growth of both the government quickly had to take action to control the boom in agriculture, industry, and the overall economy.
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