World War I And The War Guilt Clause

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World War I was a senseless war, a conflict between two countries that spun out of control because of the systems of alliances. The United States should not have gotten involved in the war. The primary reason for the United States’ entrance into the war was the American citizens that were caught in Germany’s crossfire, but involvement in the war sacrificed far more American lives than those American citizens that died aboard ocean liners. A peace treaty created damaging problems in the Middle East and indirectly led to World War II with the War Guilt Clause. World War I was not a moral cause, it was a war that sent soldiers to their deaths to avenge the deaths of Americans that died in the sea, and it led to ethnic and religious conflicts in

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