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= = = The US: Truly Neutral? = **Thesis: The US entered World War I because of cultural ties with Great Britain. The US was heavily invested in Great Britain, so if they lost, the US would lose out economically. Secondly, the United States used pro-Britain propaganda, more than any other country in the war, so they were never truly neutral.**

=Investments in Britain= The United States traded with Great Britain a lot more than any other country in the war, giving them food and war materials, because of our cultural ties with Great Britain, aka our "Cultural Brothers." Therefore, if the allies lost the war, we would lose out economically. Trade would be cut off, and we would lose money. All because we had cultural ties with Great Britain and felt we should be heavily invested in them. Surely, if the US was indeed neutral, there would not be such an economic blow resulting from the allies losing.  =Pro British Propaganda= During World War I, propaganda was all over the American nation. Much of this propaganda had a pro-British slant, which aided to the allegations that the US thought of Britain as it's "Cultural Brother". While anti-German propaganda made thousands of people hate Germany, the pro-British propaganda made everyone in America like Britain. The pro-British propaganda not only made Americans furious with Germany, it also madehat there was no way America would ever help Germany in the war. So America helped out Great Britain instead. =Germany Retaliates= One of the things that threw us into war was unrestricted warfare, which the Germans were using to shoot down any American ship traveling to Britain. True, this affected the US, but the reasons the US were going to Britain were to give them food and war supplies. So if it weren't for the cultural ties with Great Britain, we wouldn't have been there to be shot in the first place. America decided to go to the war after the sinking of the Lusitania. The Lusitania was one of the biggest, fastest and most luxurious ships in the world in 20 century. It was a symbol of British power and that's why Germany chose the Lusitania to destroy. The USA stood on the British side of the conflict. If America hadn't had the cultural attachment with Great Britain, they wouldn't have gone to the war.

Therefore, pro-British propaganda, investments in Great Britain, and the US being under attack were factors that pushed to United States into war, but neither of them factors would have existed if the US did not have cultural ties to Great Britain. The US was never truly neutral, as Woodrow Wilson wanted to pretend we were, because of our ties with Britain. Despite what the president said, the war did have something to do with us because it had everything to do with Great Britain. We helped Britain most of the way by trading with them, and making all of America root for Great Britain with pro-British propaganda. These things led Germany to attack, thus leading us into war, all because of our ties with our "Cultural Brother."

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