World War I The Great War!

The First World War was the first of its kind in terms of massive bloodshed and mechanized machines. Airplanes, machine guns and biological warfare decimated the normal foot soldier ill equipped for the dangers of this new kind of war. It is interesting how America got involved or didn't get involved. The United States, being a relatively young country, tried to stay out of Europe's affairs and tried at all costs to stay neutral. But they continued trade and provided monetary assistance to the Allied Powers (Russia, France and the U.K.) and cut of the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy) completely. So America's attempt at neutrality was kind of a cover up for what they really felt about the war being waged in Europe.