As we learned in our last task on imperialism, america under president wilson had started to favor a more isolationist, and less interventionist approach to the foreign affairs of other countries. or, at least, that was the intent. u. s. isolation or neutrality in the face of foreign affairs would be greatly tested with the onset of world war 1 in europe in 1914. in this task, we will investigate the causes of world war i and american involvement in the great war.

compelling question: why did the u. s. enter wwi, and were critics of wwi anti-american?

supporting question #1: what caused wwi?
**type the definitions given on the screen**
militarism:

alliances:

nationalism:

imperialism:

assassination:

Read the excerpt from "home front diary." jimmy simmons stopped by today to tell me that he had enlisted in the army. he asked me if i would write to him, and i said i would. i told him that i've been writing to my uncle arthur and susan's cousin john for about a year, and as an experienced correspondent i had some advice about all the censorship. "don't write down any information about your location or the number of soldiers in your unit because the censors will cut all of that away," i said. "in my experience, loose lips not only sink ships, they make letters look like snowflake decorations! ” well, he belly laughed over that one. how is the author's perspective different from jimmy's? the author has been to war and she can give jimmy advice. jimmy has become a soldier and does not believe the author’s advice. the author has experience writing to soldiers but jimmy does not. jimmy has more experience at letter writing than the author.