As the death counts continued to soar, the American people became less and less inclined to join the war. In this, he had the overwhelming support of the American people, who still clung George Washington's warning of getting the United States involved in "Entangling Alliances", the very thing that had start the war in the first place, as if it was Holy Writ. When the war broke out, Wilson, who was still focused on his agenda of domestic reform, was determined to keep the United States out of these devastating conflict. This conflict would eventually come to be known as the Weltkrieg. The Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo in June of 1914 lead to the outbreak of the largest and bloodiest war the world had ever seen. These reforms greatly improved the confidence of the American people in their government and resulted in the Election in 1912 of Woodrow Wilson, who promised to carry it even further, a promise he would fulfill over the course of the next 8 years.Īs the Wilson Administration entered into its Second year, however, other events began to overshadow these efforts.
This brought about a wave of unionization and reform during what came to be known as the Progressive Era. This splendor, however, was built on the backs of industrialists with dubious morals and few scruples leading to drastic exploitation of the American Workers.
This era of American Imperialism lead to a renewed faith in America and its strength. This culminated in 1898 in the Spanish American War, Which saw the United States thrash the rotten corpse of the Spanish Empire and take its remaining possessions for themselves or, in the case of Cuba, give them at least the veneer of independence.
With this increased economic power came a desire to flex their growing, but unrecognized and relatively untested military and diplomatic might. The pace of Industrialization only picked up in the already heavily industrialized North and with the abolition of slavery and subsequent overturning of the economic system it brought about, the South too was finally making progress in catching up to the North's level of Industrialization. After the destruction and loss of life of the Civil War during the mid 19th century, the United States had come roaring back in a big way. At the Dawn of the 20th Century, the United States had seemed primed for greatness.
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