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 Everyone had their own opinion on whether America should or should not have joined World War I. Most people have their own opinions on whether Woodrow Wilson made right decision on joining. Personally I believe Wilson made the right choice for many reasons. Above all there are three main points. One would be the Zimmerman Note. After we intercepted this message at sea and decoded it, we found out Germany’s main plan. There was also the fact that Both America and Germany were “fighting”, so to speak, on becoming the biggest world power. The last is Lusitania. This was a boat that the German U-boats took out which killed a grand total of 1,198, and of those some 128 Americans. With all these events, I believe they sum up some of the details on why war was necessary.  To start off both the U.S. and Germany wanted to be world powers. There had always been an on-going battle for the top power, and for the beginning of the war and long before it, his position was locked in by Britain, who had the strongest navy. Although Britain seemed to have this locked down, Germany finally took the stage by the time of the war. For the earlier parts of the war, America was not fighting. Basically we were just sending supplies overseas. We didn’t care to whom it went to as long as we go paid, and due to the British blockade, Germany was not recieing any of the U.S. made products. Eventually Germany came up with the Unrestricted Submarine warfare and took their dominance. Now although America did not tag-along in the war right away, that didn’t mean we didn’t want to be a world power. Back on our own land we were producing goods in record numbers, which is why we were successful. And due to Germany’s U-boats, the U.S. seemed to have a slight chip on it’s shoulder.  Going off of that, the next thing I believe was a reason we went to war was the Lusitania. This was a British Liner which sank on May 15, 1915. The cause of this, the Germans who were still in a bit of a bad mood thanks to the British blockade, were now having unrestricted Submarine warfare. The vessels were called the U-boats. This was to blame for the Lusitania. The reason why I think this was a reason for going to war was, the Germans were single handedly sinking vessel after vessel, and finally they sank the Lusitania. The reason this was such a problem to the U.S. was that 1,198 people died on the ship, and of those 1,198, 128 were Americans. Going off of what I mentioned earlier with America having a chip on it’s shoulder, there is no doubt this made that chip bigger, and Americans were bothe sad and furious of the war that they were not in, was taking a toll.  Moving along a couple years, America still hadn’t joined World War I yet, but this would soon change. On January 31, 1917 Germany declare that U-boats would sink all ships in British waters. This basically was screaming to the U.S. “come and get us”. Wilson still insisted on waiting for “actual overt acts” before he would declare war. With out to much time passing, their “overt acts” came. This was the Zimmerman note. The Zimmerman note was a not picked off overseas from Germany and the British decoded this messages to find out what it said. Basically this not was sent to the German Ambassador who was in Mexico.