WWI+Political+Team

=World War I Political Team= Malinda, Tori, Emily, Mary Leigh

Documents 1-4 (Helen) Document 1: - Woodrow Wilson’s Procomation of 1914 Document 2: - secretary of state, Williams Jennings Bryan, 1914 Document 3: - Bryan, 1915. Document 4: - reported by British parliament, 1915
 * Relationships with powers
 * Americans Siding with certain powers
 * People from other Powers living in America
 * Have laws and treaties that keep us neutral
 * Should stick to them to keep peace for the nation
 * Questioning whether or not to make a loan to the French government
 * In order to be neutral
 * Should not partake in loans to belligerents
 * Should not interfere with the balance of financial interests with others governments
 * it is not Germany’s problem
 * they have warned us
 * but we still take the risk
 * we cant complain
 * they aren’t doing it on purpose
 * why would they if they needed our help?
 * We need to stop the misuse of our flag
 * Not use British vessels in war zones
 * Explicitly describes how an officer orders soldiers to break into to an innocent families house (man with his hands tied behind his back with woman and child) he shoots the man, hits the women on the head. And stabs a knife through the baby and puts it on his shoulder, then sets the house on fire, and those the dead bodies on top.
 * Shows how Britain was trying to describe the atrocities of Germany to try and get America to join the war.