World War I

US involvement in World War I

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US involvement in World War I

Introduction

The United States declared war on Germany and, thereby, to the Axis powers April 6, 1917. The war began in Europe in August 1914, following a series of crises in the Balkans. The trigger for the war was the assassination of the Archduke of Austria-Hungary, Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in June 1914 (Dolan, 1996). The alliances between European countries was then engulfed Europe and the world (these countries also had colonies on the African and Asian continents), between the Entente powers (Britain and France in particular) to ...