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**Theme:** World Wars **Topic:** World War I **Free Response Question**: To what extent did the United States achieve the objectives that led it to enter the First World War? Introductory Paragraph **Setting:** Before and during World War I(1912-1918)  **Basis for Analysis**: The American objectives before and during the war  ****Partitions:**** Before the U.S. entered World War I it had many pre-war objectives such as a world safe for democracy, free trade on the seas, and protection of their economic interests. But during the war the U.S developed more objectives involving Wilson's fourteen points, League of Nations, and war reparations.  **Thesis:** The U.S entered with many objectives and created more throughout the war, although the U.S accomplished many of their objectives some of the most important ones were not accomplished and the U.S was seen as less powerful because of these failures. **Partition 1:** World safe for Democracy created post war democracies resulting in ethnic conflicts Russian Revolution Imperialism and Colonies <span style="background-color: #808000; color: #e1ff00; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">**Partition 2:** Protection of Economic interests, free trade on seas raising of tariffs U.S from creditor to debtor nation post-war recession <span style="background-color: #0000ff; color: #00ff00; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">** Partition 3: ** Wilson's Fourteen Points, League of nations, and War reperations Fail to ratify Treaty of Versailles Fail to join League of Nations Irreconcilables Reservationists Revenge Reparations <span style="background-color: #800080; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 23px; text-align: left;">General Information: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;"> //Sussex// Pledge //Lusitania// Zimmerman Note Unrestricted Submarine Warfare