As Jews prepared for their Seder, Woodrow Wilson declared war on Germany, bringing the United States into World War One. By the end of the war a quarter of a million Jews would be serving in the US armed forces, 20% of them volunteers. Among the events that forced Wilson’s hand was the sinking of the SS Lusitania by a German U-boat, killing over a hundred American citizens. Another was the discovery that Germany was plotting to aid Mexico in its attempts to conquer parts of the United States.
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