Should the United States enter World War I? The U.S. should join the Allies in the war or they could lose and we would be ruled by the Germans. The United States joined the war three years after it started. When Russia left the war Germany only had to fight on one front but when the U.S. joined they lost on the Western Front. The U.S. should have joined the war because Germany sunk the Lusitania and because of the Zimmerman Telegram. Woodrow Wilson did the right thing by keeping us out of the war before, but now it’s time to fight alongside the Allies.

We need to enter the war before the Germans sink more ships, and kill more innocent lives. The Germans have been using unrestricted submarine warfare. This is when a ship that is not your own trespasses into your territory and you sink it without warning. They were doing this because Great Britain was also using unrestricted submarine warfare. This is what Germany did and this is what they did to the Lusitania. The Lusitania was blown up near Great Britain by Germany for trespassing into their waters. The Germans thought that the Lusitania had ammunition and it did. Countries shouldn’t be allowed to use this, it gives them an unfair advantage. The U.S. needs to stop them and help end the war.If the U.S doesn’t join the war the German Submarine Blockade won’t allow Great Britain to receive any supplies from other countries and they will have to surrender.

The United States are anti-German because of the Lusitania and the Zimmerman Telegram. The Zimmerman Telegram was wrong because it was a secret treaty between Germany and Mexico. The telegram tried to make Mexico  delay us from helping the Allies. In the treaty Mexico would get some land (Arizona, Texas, and New Mexico) and Germany would get Mexico to fight with the Central Powers. If we don’t enter the war Germany could win because they wouldn’t be split and have to fight in the two fronts. The U.S. should join the Allies because they speak the same language as Great Britain and they trade more with them.

Some of the United States were isolationists; they wanted to stay out of European affairs. They had some reasons for staying out of war but it isn’t enough to prove a point. They stayed out of war because it is a lot of money and they don’t want to lose any of their soldiers in battle. However, if we don’t enter WWI, Germany might not be stopped and we could be ruled by the Germans. It’s also important to join the war because more American soldiers could die if the Germans took over than if we went to war with them. The war has been going on for three years now and if we join the Allies it will help to end the war.

Finally on April 6, 1917, the United States entered the war and made Germany surrender. World War I ended on November 11, 1918 on the 11th hour of the 11th day on the 11th month. When we entered the war Germany surrendered shortly after. We joined the war because of the Lusitania and the Zimmerman Telegram. If we didn’t enter it, the war could have gone on forever and the Germans could have won.