History Research Essay

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A Letter to the Editor
Patriotic Citizen
1234- 0123
Belmont, CA
To the Editor
Big Wars Newspaper
Belmont, CA
2nd January 1919.
Dear Editor,
Re: The US involvement in the War
Our country’s involvement in the just concluded world war has been a matter of endless discussion due to its nature and the pressure it has put on us citizens. One way the US populace is currently divided on this matter is on whether our government should have gotten involved in the war in any other way than its initial stand of neutrality (Kazin 2). Although it is challenging to speculate how the war would have been without the US’s entry, the conditions of the war two years before we got involved as a country indicates that it was necessary for the US to take a side and engage the enemy.
Although we as citizens were pressured to let our youth and able men go to war among other ways, it has left us in a better position in the following ways (Kazin 10). Specifically, it has given us the need for coming up with new policies regarding food administration, weaponry production and purchase, sharing of information, and citizens’ participation in national service to guard our growth as a country.
The Food Administration program that Herbert Hoover introduced in 1917 (Allen 2) has given us citizens a sense of conservation and improving our food production. We civilians adjusted our eating habits while at the same time increasing our producti…