Modern Era · North America · War
1917
America enters the war
April 6, 1917
Wilson, who had been reelected on keeping the country out, asked Congress to declare war on Germany after the Zimmermann telegram and unrestricted submarine warfare. The United States had almost no army. Within eighteen months it had two million men in France and an industry that would decide the outcome.
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