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Because it pleased at least two thirds of the American public. There had been pressure to actively join the Allies by the Americans with Anglo-Saxon roots, but Americans with German and Scandinavian roots (of whom there were also many) had been pressurizing Congress and the President to stay out of the conflict. The Irish - an important force within the Democratic Party - were dead set against the USA helping the hated British in any way. The rest of the American public saw the war as just one of those many intra-European armed conflicts and they saw no interest to themselves in getting involved.

The Zimmerman telegram changed the feelings of many US (not American) citizens.

The sinking of the Lusitania had Propaganda value only and did not precipitate the US involvement in WW 1, it happened two years prior to the US declaring itself an associated power of the Allied forces against the Central powers.

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