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President Woodrow Wilson asking Congress to declare war on Germany on April 2, 1917. On April 6, 1917, the United States Congress declared war upon the German Empire; on April 2, President Woodrow Wilson had asked a special joint session of Congress for this declaration.
The US Constitution provides that the congress shall declare war. The congress declared war on Germany when Woodrow Wilson was president in 1917 and when Franklin Delano Roosevelt was president in 1941.
Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war on Germany on April 2, 1917. Germany had resumed unrestricted submarine warfare and also tried to get Mexico to attack the United States and promised to return lost territory to them if they did. Wilson said he wanted to make the world "safe for democracy."
On April 2, 1917, President Wilson asked Congress to declare war on Germany. He believed that America's entry into World War I was necessary to defend democracy and protect American interests. Wilson cited Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare, which threatened American lives and commerce, as one of the primary reasons for seeking a declaration of war.
Woodrow's Wilson's threat to Germany was that he was going to declare war on Germany as a bit of revenge.
President Wilson asked congress to declare war on Germany and entered the alied side of the conflict in 1917.
The Zimmerman Letter
6 April 1917
1) The British found a letter written by Germany that tried to get Mexico to declare war on the USA, and 2) Germany said they were going to resume unrestricted submarine warfare and sink any ships (civilian or military) sailing between the USA and England. These two actions finally provoked President Wilson to ask the Congress to declare War on Germany.
April 6, 1917