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In what year did the U.S. enter World War I?

1914
1915
1916
1917

Answer

The United States entered World War I on April 6, 1917, when Congress declared war against Germany. The U.S. had been officially neutral in the war up to that point, but had been providing economic and military aid to the Allied Powers. Germany's decision to resume unrestricted submarine warfare in February 1917, however, pushed the U.S. to declare war. The U.S.