![]() ![]() Neutrality proved difficult to maintain, however, and for two and a half years the United States found itself caught in a series of diplomatic crises that gradually edged the nation nearer to war. President Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) made a decision to stay neutral. When war exploded across Europe in August 1914, U.S. ![]() Multiple segments of American society hoped to use the war to gain the upper hand in these debates, and some succeeded. ![]() Mobilizing for war, Americans found it difficult to put aside their differences over economic inequities, state power, female suffrage, civil rights, immigration, social welfare and the nation’s growing imperial reach. ![]() The war also made a lasting impact on the domestic development of the United States. Kennedy aptly noted in Over Here: The First World War and American Society, his classic overview of the American war experience, that “Americans went to war in 1917 not only against Germans in the fields of France but against each other at home.” The entanglement of the United States in the European-instigated conflict vividly reveals the global dimensions of the First World War. ![]()
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