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WILSON SEEKS A NEGOTIATED PEACE

Finds Little Support, Belligerents Seek Knockout Blow; Germans Threaten U.S. Home Territory Special to The Great War Project (29 September-3 October) The Germans now eye the possibility of submarine attacks on the United States. American targets begin to attract German U-boat attention, as the underwater offensive spreads. At the beginning of October exactly a century…

FORCED LABOR FOR BELGIANS IN GERMANY

Move Violates Laws of War; A Protest From the U.S. Wilson Running For Re-election; ‘He Kept Us Out of War’ Special to The Great War Project (18-22 September) Germany is dragooning hundreds of thousands of Belgian citizens into forced labor. According to historian Martin Gilbert, in these days in the war a century ago, Germany…

AMERICA INCREASINGLY LEANS TOWARD THE ALLIES

President Wilson Seeks Neutrality; Some Call It Non-Neutral Democrats Nominate Wilson for Second Term Special to The Great War Project. (6-8 July) The bloodletting at Verdun and on the Somme strengthens the forces in the United States – including President Woodrow Wilson – who feel the United States must stay out of the war. “For…

A FLOOD OF AMERICAN ARMS TO ALLIES

British Operations in U.S. Spend Millions Each Week The German Response: Sabotage Special to The Great War Project (18-21 May) By this time in the war a century ago, the United States is supplying the Allies – Britain, France, and Russia – with an estimated forty percent of the weaponry they need to fight the…

DEATH ON THE HIGH SEAS

Germany Returns to Unrestricted Submarine Warfare Wilson Struggles with Policy of Neutrality Will the U.S. Enter the War? Special to The Great War Project (26-30 March) Tension is growing in the United States over the German decision to return to unrestricted submarine warfare and the American response to it. In the winter of 1916, the…

FEVERISH DEBATE IN THE U.S. OVER POLICY OF NEUTRALITY

Wilson Struggles to Treat Britain and Germany Equally; Americans In Anti-War Mood Special to The Great War Project (22-25 January) By the beginning of 1916, the American president Woodrow Wilson still is struggling with his stance of neutrality. Wilson is trying to formulate a policy that will address the potential hostile acts at sea of…

THE U.S. LEANS TOWARD THE ALLIES

Col. House in London Lends Support to Britain. British Hold the Line at Suez. Special to The Great War Project (11-14 February) Colonel Edward House, the closest adviser to Woodrow Wilson, the American president, arrives in London on February 6. He sails on an American-flagged ship called the Lusitania . The passage is uneventful, but…