Document 1: Excerpt from Why America Fights Germany (1918), a government propaganda pamphlet concerning alleged German atrocities.
"We were horrified still more by their conduct in Belgium—by their needless destruction of precious things, by their vile and filthy treatment of the Belgians, by their robberies, by their numberless murders. A German soldier fell off his bicycle and his gun went off; he declared he had been shot at, and all the inhabitants of the village were burned to death in their homes. Feeble old Belgian priests were forced to walk in front of the marching German armies as screens, so that if the Belgians fired they might kill the priests first. Babies were stabbed with bayonets. Belgians were carried off into Germany and forced to work for the German armies. … Whole books have been written about these horrors, against all law and humanity, and yet half of them have not been recorded."
Writing prompt: Why did the United States enter World War I? Explain the interventionist arguments and how Americans reacted. Why did some Americans oppose American military involvement?
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