What kept the us out of ww1 for 3 years?

Answer 1

In the simplest terms: The general American public did not feel it was our war. Many Americans knew next to nothing about Europe. It was not the age of TV, books, internet where we know about most of the world and a large population did not even have an education beyond 6th grade. Many people could not read or write then either. Politicians in Washington D.C. did not feel exactly the same way as the general American public because they knew more about the situation but still did not want to send our military people over there to die. We also did not have a very large army at the time. The first group of military personnel who went over there did not have combat experience and there were only a small amount of them. It is not like we initially sent over thousands of military people. The cost of a war was another factor. The politicians really did not want to spend the money on a war that was not ours.