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Caption: War Publications - WWI Compilation 1923 - Article 49
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Feb. 3. Ambassador *on Bernstorff dismissed; dlplomaUe relations with Germany broken. Feb. 28. The Zimmennami note i: published through the associated Tress. March 12. Orders are Issued to arm American merchant ships. April 2. President Wilson urges the recognition of a state of war With Germany. April 6. Declaration of war p.. sed by the House and signed by the Pr$s« ident. Dec. 7. War declared against Austro-llungury. 4* Why America entered the war. + 0 : > I w ¥> 4 t ernational the accepted rules of warfare. Because Germany was renewing her submarine warfare in a more ruth' less form, resulting in the destruction of American ships and the loss of American lives. Because a Prussian victory would endanger the future peace of Amerimaintenance of the Monroe Doctrine extremely cult. d. Because a victory for Prussian autocracy and militarism would endanger the future peace of the entire world. e. Because the war was taking on the form of a struggle between two principles: autocracy and democracy; to permit autocracy to win would be to repudiate our own history. Literature. i tSw i KM •War Cyclopedia, "Ancona," "Arabic," "Atrocities," "Belgium" (several articles), "Bernstorff" (two articles), "Blacklist," "Blockade," "German Intrigue" (and other articles on Germany), "Hyphenated Americans," "Kaiserism," "Lusitania," "Mails, British Interference with," "Mercier, Cardinal," "Monroe Doctrine, German Attitude," "Neutrality," "Neutral Rights," "Peace Terms" (several articles), "Permanent Peace," "Submarine Warfare" (several articles), "United States" (several articles), "War Zone, German," "Why We Are at War" (two articles), "Zimmermann Note," etc. •Collected Materials, 916 (President Wilson's War Adresses); 46*49 (German War Philosophy). •How the War Came to America. •The War Message and the Facts behind it. Munro, Sellery, and Krey, German War Practices Garner, Why we are at War with Germany. It | U) * 1 V > Study: owing to the importance of the German submarine warfare as a factor in our entry into the war, it may be advisable at this point to point out the more obvious facts of the geography of this warfare: the submarine bases; the routes followed; the location of the more important sinkings; the sandbanks and shallow stretches in the North Sea, etc. <l M
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