Americans Take Sides
Pro-British Sentiment
Business Links
The British Blockade
The United States Declares War
100
German Americans supported who?
their homeland
100
One select group of Americans was decidedly ________.
Pro-British
100
How much money was lent to Germany?
27 million
100
Shortly after the war began, the British deployed their navy to _______ Germany and keep it from obtaining supplies.
blockade
100
What did the British intelligence intercept?
Zimmerman telegram
200
Irish Americans sympathized with who?
central powers
200
Only Secretary of Sate William Jennings Bryan ________ neutrality.
favored
200
What would happen of the Allies won?
the money would be paid back
200
what is contraband?
prohibited materials, to prevent neutral countries from shipping food to Germany
200
what did many Americans conclude?
Concluded war with Germany was necessary
300
Who did the American public opinion favor?
the Allied cause
300
One method they used was ________ propaganda or information designed to influence opinion.
propaganda
300
By 1917 how much did loans total?
Over 2 Billion
300
The Germans knew that the allies depended on food _____ and other supplies.
equipment
300
German U-boats how many American merchant ships with out warning?
6
400
What did Americans value?
Heritage, Language and political ideals
400
British propaganda on the other hand was extremely _______.
Skillful
400
What leaned toward the Allies?
American business interests
400
if Germany could strangle that trade it could starve the British and the French into _________.
Surrendering
400
April 2, 1917 President Wilson asked for what?
Ask for declaration of war against Germany
500
What country was a great friend to America during the Revolutionary War?
France
500
Germans used corpses from the battlefield to make fertilizer and ____.
Soap
500
The country's prosperity was intertwined with military fortunes of who?
Britain, France, And Russia
500
What is U-Boats
From the German word Unterseeboat
500
Senate passed the resolution on what day?
April 4
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