United States of America Declares War on Germany

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Fri, 04/06/1917

President Woodrow Wilson addressed a joint session of the United States Congress on 2 April 1917 and asked Congress to declare war on Germany. He cited Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare and its enticing Mexico into alliance against the United States as justification.

On 4 April, the US Senate voted to support the declaration and the House of Representatives voted to support the Declaration of War against Germany on 6 April 1917.

The USA later declared war on Austria-Hungary on 7 December 1917.

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'I turned over one poor chap on a rocky, bloody crag on Tanngoucha. He was facing the right way, the last round of a clip in the breech and three dead Germans in front of him. His name was Duff. After all is over - and the remainder of the Empire is understandably irritated with Ireland - I hope these countless Duffs, from both the North and the South, and in all three services, will be remembered.
(Brigadier Nelson Russell, Commander 38 (Irish) Brigade, 1942-44)

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