The Path to War: How the First World War Created Modern America (Neiberg) youth Once the transformation is complete

Once the transformation is complete

In 1876 the abolitionist Frederick Douglass observed

as has often been said

The young lieutenant and his exhausted crewmates braced for a nearly hopeless emergency landing

The Path to War: How the First World War Created Modern America (Neiberg) youth Once the transformation is completeby Michael S. Neibert When war broke out in Europe in August of 1914, it seemed, to observers in the United States, the height of madness. The Old World and its empires were tearing each other apart, and while most Americans blamed the Germans, pitied the Belgians, and felt kinship with the Allies, they wanted no part in the carnage. Two years into war President Woodrow Wilson won re election by pledging to keep out of the conflict. Yet by the spring