WORLD WAR ONE - ANTI-GERMAN HYSTERIA
WORLD WAR ONE - ANTI-GERMAN HYSTERIA
The seeds of World War One were not nurtured amid lofty principles of liberty, religious freedom or from a need to topple cruel despots. It was a conflict conceived in smoke-filled board rooms, political offices, stock exchanges and banks on both sides of the Atlantic and carried to term by various parties who stood to gain politically or financially.
Birthed into the waiting arms of jealousy, politics and greed, it was a banal, vile creation, an artificially inseminated monster that maimed and murdered a generation of young men and laid a direct pathway to another war.
To achieve this goal, motivations and villains had to be artificially crafted. What ensued was the largest ethnic assault in human history.
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By 1917, over forty different peace groups in the U.S.A. were agitating against involvement in the war. On the day that Wilson called upon Congress to declare war, 10,000 people had a peace rally in Chicago Coliseum, thousands of German-Americans demanded a national referendum and 1,500 pacifists protested in the Capitol. Civil War veteran General Isaac R. Sherwood made a futile appeal to Congress in which he reminded them of England's attack upon the US during the Civil War. He warned that the American people would be going to war "as an Ally of the only nation in Europe that has always been our enemy and against the nation that has always been our friend."
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