WorldWideDemocracy

=Thesis: Defend **ing democracy was the most important reason we entered WWI because we believed everyone deserved freedom, Kaiser's plan worried us, and because we were one of the greatest democratic nations.** =

=**Everyone Deserves Freedom **=

The secret of happiness is freedom, The secret of freedom is courage
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During the years past America has had many cultures, beliefs, and ethnicity's but one thing that everybody had in common was that they were free people. This concept is something that America wanted everybody in Europe to continue having but unfortunately, Germany was trying to dictate the way that people thought and more or less take over Europe.

Germany, by using the Zimmerman note was also trying to take away our freedom by getting Mexico to attack America. Another way that Germany showed that they are trying to take away our freedom is by sinking our merchant ships with submarine warfare, we had the right to send goods and supplies over to Britain and Germany wanted to dictate that. All in all freedom is something that every country should have, unfortunately Germany threatened and attempted to take away not only America's freedom, but also Europe freedom which forced us into the war

= Kaiser's Plan Worried Us = Germany worried the US from the very beginning of WWI, with their overly aggressive ways. They were first to declare war on Russia after their mobilization, in an effort to protect their ally Austria Hungary. Germany belonged to an alliance with both Austria Hungary and Italy.

d) due to italy's request, both austria and germany agreed that in no case would the Treaty operate against britain
The Kaiser and his allies had a dangerous plan to put into action. It would be almost impossible for France and Britain to defeat them without the US help.

Unfairly Threatened by Germany
Germany's Schlieffen Plan was desribed as both offensive and deffensive; it provided tactics that almost ensured a win. One of their tactics was u boat warfare. They unfairly involved the US ships carrying supplies into this warfare, killing many innocent American's. This is just another example of Kaiser being overly aggressive, influencing the US to join the war

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Germany also demonstrated its aggression through their advanced plan called "The Schlieffen Plan". They planned to fight a war in two fronts, Russia and France. The Germans put their plan into action on August 2nd, 1914. This was the day when Germany invaded Luxembourg and Belgium. The Germans believed they it would be an easy attack, but the Belgium army actually pushed Germany away and made them retreat. The Schlieffen plan failed.

= **US Democratic Nations** = The leader of the largest democratic nation of the world, swayed from joining the war quite possible because he was born in Virginia in 1856 and had to face the death of his father in the civil war, this with the death of his wife shortly after the Wilson family moved into the wite house he wanted everything but war for his nation because he felt the pains that would be felt for all mourning familys after the war was over, but there was another worry he had grater that the lives of thousands (millions??) of Americans and that was the possibility that the very American way of life would be destroyed if Germany won WW1. With him being the leader f the largest democratic nation war as he said was “terrible thing to drive a peacefull people into war” but he knew that Germany would take over all of Europe and would not waste any time fighting the US, we must join “to make the wold safe for democracy..”

After WW1 ended and the Treaty of Versailles had been signed Wilson started a nationwide campaign to gather support for the Paris Peace Agreement, he wasn’t doing this as a publicity boost, he was doing this as he declared years earlier, “make the world safe for democracy” by this time no shots were being fired, no war trade was being made, and propaganda had done its job to get the war started, Wilson was still fighting for his words. Unfortunately during this tour he collapsed and became severely injured, but he kept to his word through the end of his life.

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