Should the US have gotten involved in Europe in WWI?

[Historic NY]

32. In the end we were sucked into the war....

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which had been going on "tit for tat", from 1912 onward. The crescendo was the assassination of Arch Duke Ferdinand and his wife in July 1914 increased the echoes of war.

European politics and Imperialism and the arms race were part of the root cause along with petty greivances from the 1880 period. Pretty much it seems everyone hated each other.

All out submarine warfare against our commercial ships eventually brought Wilson to the table, once neutrality failed. The final blame was the Lusitania, but it was in the works long before that... as groups worked to gin up our entry. Wilson finally caved when he saw Germany's Imperialistic goals threaten not only the world but US interests. Nothing stood in their way with the Russian Revolution turning out the Czar. The anti-warists slowly evolved to see that it was a moral threat and slowly withdrew their opposition. Wilson finally declared was on the German Empire in 1917.