On April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson expressed his wish to declare war with Germany, a war later to be known as the “First World War”. With the proposal of war breaking out, the American people divided into two sides: those who were against war, and those who supported it. Although both sides conveyed compelling points, the message and ideas that were raised from those who opposed of the war prevailed. The American people strongly expressed their opposition to war. Through various means, the people argue that no good ever comes out of war, and that it was not the people’s battle to fight. It was written on an anti-enlistment poster that the U.S. should do “good and useful work; destroy poverty, and bring in industrial justice (Anti-Enlistment
