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By Martin Kelly, About.com Guide to American History since 2001

Joining the War to End All Wars

Sunday April 6, 2008
On April 6, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson signed a resolution that officially entered the United States into World War I. This decision was made due to Germany's intensification of its submarine campaign against merchant routes to Britain.

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