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With the assassination
of Arcduke Franz Fernidad throne of the Austro-Hungarian empire, Austro-Hungary declares war on Serbia. Russia, Serbia's ally declares war on Austro-Hungary and Germany mobilizes there troops and declared war on France and Rusia. With the war raging in Europe a stalemate was made. President Woodrow Wilson and Congress felt hostility towards Great Britan because of past wars, for this reason they favores the Central Powers. More Americans opposed the Central Powers because of German ruler, Kaiser Wilhelm. They disliked him because he was an autocrat, and they saw the Germans as people of frightening militarism and cold-blooded efficiency. With the AMerican inestments overseas increasing between 1897 and 1914 between $700 million and $3.5 billion, the bloackade of the North Sea by Germany put these investments at risk. To protect these investments President Wilson declared the U.S a neutral country. However in the next two years friction between the......

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