Interventionists, like former president Theodore Roosevelt, rallied to shape public opinion.
needed to immediately build up strong naval and land forces for defensive purposes. "Let nations arbitrate their future troubles, It’s time to lay the sword and gun away, There’d be no war today, If mothers all would say, I didn’t raise my boy to be a soldier."īy 1915, especially in Eastern cities, a new Preparedness Movement proclaiming that the U.S. 1 on the American music charts in 1915, the song "I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier" had a strong pacifist message. Nearly 10% of Americans identified as ethnic Germans, most of whom hoped the United States would remain neutral in the war. a financial stake in the outcome of the war. American institutions lent large sums to the Allied governments, giving the U.S. position, many Americans personally sympathized with Britain, France and their allies. military) and over a hundred thousand Americans volunteered for the international war effort, support for neutrality and isolationism was strong.ĭespite the U.S. We must be impartial in thought as well as in action, must put a curb upon our sentiments as well as upon every transaction that might be construed as a preference of one party to the struggle before another.”Īlthough a vocal segment of the population favored “preparedness” for war (especially strengthening the U.S.
“The United States must be neutral in fact as well as in name during these days that are to try men’s souls. Why did America enter World War I? When WWI began in Europe in 1914, many Americans wanted the United States to stay out of the conflict, supporting President Woodrow Wilson’s policy of strict and impartial neutrality.
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