Preparedness Movement
By Lincoln Dinger
I agree
with the leaders of the preparedness movement that we should have our forces
ready to go to war and aid Great Britain in the fight verses Germany. In 1915
the leaders of the movement persuaded the United States Government to set up
training camps all over the United States to get men ready for combat if we had
to enter the war. In 1916 President Woodrow Wilson persuaded the United States
Government to input a large increase in our armed forces. I Think that the
leaders of the preparedness movement were right in their views because if worse
came to worse we would be ready. Another reason I agree with the preparedness
movement is because if we followed the peace movement and we had to enter the
war we would not be as ready as we were with the preparedness movement. I disagree with the United States Government
on Neutrality because we are allied with Great Britain and some others. The
United States government disagreed with both sides of the war. He thought that they were both wrong and
they shouldn’t have gone to war. Antimilitarists and pacifists are strongly
against the preparedness movement because they think that war is never right
and they shouldn’t be spending any time or any money on the military or war.
The main reason for the program was because we were in no shape for war. We had
no poison gas weapons and or tanks. We also had no experience with trench
warfare.
