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A Comparative Study of America's Entries Into World War I and World War II East Tennessee State University Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University Electronic Theses and Dissertations Student Works 5-2009 A Comparative Study of America's Entries into World War I and World War II. Samantha Alisha Taylor East Tennessee State University Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.etsu.edu/etd Part of the Political History Commons, and the United States History Commons Recommended Citation Taylor, Samantha Alisha, "A Comparative Study of America's Entries into World War I and World War II." (2009). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 1860. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1860 This Thesis - Open Access is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Works at Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. A Comparative Study of America's Entries into World War I and World War II _____________________ A thesis presented to the faculty of the Department of History East Tennessee State University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Arts in History _____________________ by Samantha Alisha Taylor May 2009 _____________________ Stephen Fritz, Chair Elwood Watson Ronnie Day Keywords: World War One, World War Two, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, American Entry ABSTRACT A Comparative Study of America's Entries into World War I and World War II by Samantha Alisha Taylor This thesis studies events that preceded America‟s entries into the First and Second World Wars to discover similarities and dissimilarities. Comparing America‟s entries into the World Wars provides an insight into major events that influenced future ones and changed America. Research was conducted from primary sources of Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt. In addition, secondary sources were used that study the events preceding America‟s entries into World War I and World War II. Research was also conducted on public opinion. In World War I, German actions angered Wilson and segments of the American public, persuading Wilson to ask for a declaration of war. While German aggression shaped American opinion in World War II, Japanese action forced the United States to enter the war. In both cases, the tone of aggression that molded the foreign policy of Presidents Wilson and Roosevelt and shaped American public opinion originated from Germany. 2 CONTENTS ABSTRACT……………………………………………………………………………………….2 Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................6 2. WORLD WAR 1..............................................................................................................9 Britain Tries to Control Trade..................................................................................9 German Submarine Warfare..................................................................................10 American War Policies..........................................................................................12 American Response to Submarine Warfare...........................................................13 Final Moves for Peace Fail....................................................................................15 British-American Relations Decline......................................................................17 Towards World War I............................................................................................18 3. WORLD WAR II...........................................................................................................19 Early Steps to War.................................................................................................19 War Begins.............................................................................................................19 Beginning of American Aid...................................................................................22 Japan and the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere.......................................23 Breakdown of Japanese-American Relations........................................................24 Beginning of the Anglo-American Alliance..........................................................25 The War Takes a Turn...........................................................................................26 Japan Forces American Intervention.....................................................................27 4. WOODROW WILSON‟S WAR POLICIES.................................................................29 3 Foundations of Woodrow Wilson‟s Foreign Policy..............................................29 Founding America‟s Position for Peace................................................................31 Defending American Neutral Rights.....................................................................32 American Economic Policy...................................................................................34 Wilson‟s Response to Submarine Warfare............................................................37 Overtures of Peace.................................................................................................38 German Grievances Against the United States......................................................40 Moves Towards a Munitions Embargo..................................................................42 Wilson and Preparedness.......................................................................................43 The Wilson Administration and Submarine Warfare............................................45 The Lusitania Changes Wilson and His Administration.......................................47 Belligerent Policies Force Wilson‟s Hand.............................................................54 The Sussex and the Sussex Pledge.........................................................................56 The Peak of British Commerce Control................................................................57 Final Moves for Peace...........................................................................................58 Preludes to War......................................................................................................61 Wilson Breaks Diplomatic Relations with Germany.............................................62 Germany Forces the United States into World War I............................................63 5. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT‟S WAR POLICES.......................................................65 The Roosevelt-Churchill Correspondence.............................................................65 The Correspondence Initiates American Aid.........................................................68 Major Effects of the Roosevelt-Churchill Correspondence...................................71 The Atlantic Conference........................................................................................74 4 American Neutrality and the Roosevelt-Churchill Correspondence.....................76 Roosevelt and Diplomacy with Japan....................................................................77 Direction of Japanese-American Diplomacy.........................................................77 American Understanding of Japanese War Finances.............................................79 Early American Responses to Japanese Actions...................................................80 Beginning of American Economic Restrictions Against Japan.............................81 A Division in the Roosevelt Administration..........................................................84 American Restrictions Harden...............................................................................85 Negotiations with Japan Stall.................................................................................89 Diplomacy Fails.....................................................................................................90 6. CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................93 BIBLIOGRAPHY........................................................................................................................107 VITA............................................................................................................................................110 5 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION The Great War began in August 1914, and for the first three years, it was a European War. The United States entered the Great War on 6 April 1917, changing it into a World War. The US entered the World War in response to German actions that cost American lives and violated neutral rights. The promise that the Great War would be the war to end all wars was broken with Adolf Hitler‟s conquests in Europe and Japan‟s invasion of Asia that began the Second World War. America would be drawn into this war as well, but unlike WWI it would not be German actions but a Japanese attack on US Naval Forces on 7 December 1941. The US entered World War I and World War II due to the aggressive actions of Germany and Japan respectively. The American intervention has been questioned in both wars. The American intervention of WWI has been questioned because of US financial ties with Britain, this was later used to keep the US isolated before World War II. The US entry into WWII has been questioned because of the personal relationship between
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