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Why did WILSON declare World War I?

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14y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Because the Germans kept on blowing up our ships sailing to England and the Zimmerman note which stated that if Mexico helped win World War 1 then Germany would give back the land that Mexico lost(which is almost a half of the United States)

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