It’s a well-known fact that the United States officially entered the First World War in April 1917, but if it had been up to Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt, the country would have entered the conflict much earlier. The former US president made no secret of his desire to personally start fighting alongside fellow Allied nations in the trenches – in fact, he tried to accomplish this by offering to raise volunteer troops to fight the Germans on the Western Front .
Ultimately, his request was turned down by President Woodrow Wilson.
Teddy Roosevelt wanted America to immediately join the Great War
When the First World War broke out in 1914, Teddy Roosevelt strongly supported the Allied cause and demanded a harsher policy against Germany from President Woodrow Wilson , especially regarding submarine warfare.
The former US president couldn’t believe Wilson did nothing when Belgium’s neutrality was violated , exclaiming, ”We [America] should have interfered, at least to the extent of the most emphatic diplomatic protest and at the very outset, and then by whatever further action was necessary.”…