The Success Of World War I - 1430 Words

In the year 1914, the Europeans were on edge because one country had found itself at war with another and all powers would end up into a struggle. On one side, there were the Germans, standing in the center of Europe with their efficient armies of their neighboring countries, France and Russia. The Germans had treaty links to the nation of Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Turks. The two main sides were the Allies, which included France, Great Britain, and Russia; and Germany and Austria-Hungary. Italy had been part of the Triple Alliance with Germany and Austria-Hungary, but this disappeared by 1914. On the other side were the French, the Russians, and if the Germans attacked France, the British. The French were worried about another†¦show more content†¦For the domestic political scene, the Democrats expected serious losses in the congressional elections, while the Republicans has won back some of the Progressive voters who had followed Roosevelt in 1912. The Republicans split between Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft to help Woodrow Wilson win the election in 1912. Woodrow Wilson wanted a new domestic program called the â€Å"New Freedom† which was enacted in 1913-1914. There were a few differences from the Wilson’s fourteen points and Roosevelt’s progressivism which brought up many questions about what Wilson was trying to do. The most important of Wilson’s fourteen points- the creation of the League of Nations- was adopted. Wilson was unable to get the Treaty of Versailles by the United States senate and ironically, America never joined the League of Nations. The differences that surfaced up were whether society should pursue social justice by doing more for the less fortunate. Years before World War I, optimism about the future spread through the United States. The issues that had been identified in the domestic affairs between 1901 and 1914 endured during World War I. By the end of World War I , over 9 million soldiers had been killed and 21 million were wounded. World War I lasted till November 11th, 1918. On February 4th, 1915, Germany declared the establishment of the war zone in the seas that surrounded the British Isles. The submarines in the war zone were mostly represented by