There were many factors that contributed to the entry of the United States into World War I. One of these reasons did include the press coverage of German atrocities; however, I would argue that there were other contributing factors of greater importance to the reversal of Wilson’s neutrality and the entry into World War I.
As the Great War progressed, the American media used its national platform to expose the American population to the war that raged on in Europe- through the Federal government, which created the Committee on Public Information in 1917. It ensured that all media was censored with the intention of preventing any non-Allie support whilst also creating a heinous image of the German ‘Huns’. The German atrocities that went on in Belgium were an incident that the American press used to form the basis of anti-German propaganda. …show more content…
going to war because it was Big Business that was exporting war munitions to the Allies, the profits of which made the U.S. extremely prosperous at the time, J.P. Morgan believed the war to be very profitable and as the war progressed he vocalised his opinion and applied pressure to Wilson, who within months abandoned neutrality and declared that the U.S. was fighting alongside the Allies. The U.S. also gave the Allies a total of $2.3 billion in loans, which would be lost if the Allies didn’t win the war, so it would be extremely beneficial for the U.S. to join the war effort and renew the commodore of the struggling soldiers as well increase their vast profits (as the indeed did by almost 2.5 billion between the years 1914 and 1916. I would therefore argue that the U.S. wartime economy (largely consisting of Big Business and its intentions) was a very significant reason the U.S. joined the First World
As the Great War progressed, the American media used its national platform to expose the American population to the war that raged on in Europe- through the Federal government, which created the Committee on Public Information in 1917. It ensured that all media was censored with the intention of preventing any non-Allie support whilst also creating a heinous image of the German ‘Huns’. The German atrocities that went on in Belgium were an incident that the American press used to form the basis of anti-German propaganda. …show more content…
going to war because it was Big Business that was exporting war munitions to the Allies, the profits of which made the U.S. extremely prosperous at the time, J.P. Morgan believed the war to be very profitable and as the war progressed he vocalised his opinion and applied pressure to Wilson, who within months abandoned neutrality and declared that the U.S. was fighting alongside the Allies. The U.S. also gave the Allies a total of $2.3 billion in loans, which would be lost if the Allies didn’t win the war, so it would be extremely beneficial for the U.S. to join the war effort and renew the commodore of the struggling soldiers as well increase their vast profits (as the indeed did by almost 2.5 billion between the years 1914 and 1916. I would therefore argue that the U.S. wartime economy (largely consisting of Big Business and its intentions) was a very significant reason the U.S. joined the First World