On April 6, 1917, the United States Congress declared war on Germany at the request of President Woodrow Wilson, thereby entering World War I and ending a long period of neutrality. While the war in Europe had started nearly three years earlier, Wilson and many Americans were committed to non-intervention. Popular opinion in the United States was split by many factors, especially ethnic affiliations that made it difficult to choose sides in a war so heavily concerned with European politics and nationalism. The German sinking of the U.S. submarine Luisitania in 1915 began to help sway public opinion against Germany and the Central Powers. The renewal of Germany’s attacks on the U.S. naval force and the publication of the Zimmerman telegram, which revealed Germany’s negotiations for an alliance with Mexico against the U.S., helped spur the declaration of war in 1917.
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