United States in World War I 11 approximately 10,000 fresh soldiers were arriving in France daily. In 1917, Congress gave US citizenship to Puerto Ricans when they were drafted to participate in World War I, as part of the Jones Act. In the end, Germany miscalculated the United States' influence on the outcome of the conflict, believing it would be many more months before US troops would arrive and overestimating the effectiveness of U-boats in slowing the American buildup. The United States Navy sent a battleship group to Scapa Flow to join with the British Grand Fleet, destroyers to Queenstown, Ireland and submarines to help guard
Romania's foreign policy in the years preceding the outbreak of the World War I Romania's foreign policy in the years preceding the outbreak of the World War I At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, the international system was marked by the rivalry between the Great Powers for the control of the Extra-European world. In Europe, Germany had become the main power and its behavior on the continent produced an extraordinary distance and reconstitution of the alliances in relation to the precursory decades Romania was caught in these games of power. On the one hand, it was an object of the neighbouring empires’ rivalry, which had plans