The United States and World War I Webquest Worksheet
Directions: Access the given website to answer each question.
1.When World War One started explain what the position of the United States under President Wilson was towards the War? http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/President_Wilson%27s_Declaration_of_Neutrality
2.What is a U-Boat and explain unrestricted submarine warfare?
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/sub.htm
3.Explain if the amount of exported goods and loans that the United States was providing the Allied and Central powers was equal or favored one side?
http://www.albany.edu/faculty/gz580/his101/lect8.html
4.What message did the German Admiralty Declaration, 4 February 1915 send to the world? http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/germanadmiraltydeclaration.htm
5. What was President Wilson’s response to the German Admiralty Declaration?
http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/wilsonwarningfeb1915.htm
6.What happened to the Lusitania and what effect did it have on the United States?
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/rotogravures/rotolusit.html
7.What happened to the Sussex? What was the United States response, and what effect did it have on German submarine attacks?
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1098.html
8.What policy did Germany change on 31 January 1917 and what was President Wilson’s response? http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/uboat_bernstorff.htm
9.What was the Zimmerman Telegram( released to the press March 1st 1917) and what effect did it have on the United States? http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/zimmermann.htm
10.Why does President Wilson ask for a special session of Congress on April 2nd 1917, and what effect did this session have on the United States?
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/wilsonwar.htm
11.Since George Washington’s warning in his 1796 Farewell Address that the United States should stay out of European Alliances, the United States had followed a policy of non-intervention in European affairs. On April 2nd 1917 President Wilson changed this policy when he asked Congress to declare war on Germany in 1917.
Describe the events that led President Wilson to change American non-interventionist policy. Explain if you think that he could have avoid war or not
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