America should have never gotten involved in world war 1

Note: some things I will not provide a source for as this will be history I remember from school, and should be common knowledge for most people. I'll provide a source where possible though. As I stated, I don't believe it was the US's business to enter world war 1. The reasons for entering the war, as stated by president Woodrow Wilson in his address to the Joint session of congress on April 2, 1917, were Germany's violation of the pledge to stop unrestricted submarine warfare, and their attempts to entice Mexico into an alliance in the event the US got involved in the war. [1] Germany was in a desperate situation, and wasn't purposely attacking Americans. Germany was merely trying to defend itself in the case where they sent the Zimmerman note to Mexico, if the US decided to get involved. I would argue they did no specific act of aggression to the United States and what they did had little impact on us, thus I consider the reasons president Wilson gave to be weak reasons for war. Next, US involvement in world war 1, likely turned the tide of the war, since Germany began an offensive in spring of 1918 into Belleau Wood.[2] It was even to the point that the entente was considering surrendering. It is here when many American troops arrived and began a counter-offensive, which would eventually push Germans out of France, leading to an end to the war. [2] The fact the allies won, caused the harsh terms of the treaty of Versailles, which the war reparations Germany had to pay, could be in part to blame for the hyper-inflationary period Germany had soon after the war. This along with the economic crisis that loomed lead to Germany seeking a way out and turned to the Nazi's in order to bring Germany's honor back. Thus, the US involvement in World War 1, can be blamed for World War 2. In addition to how US involvement in world war 1 lead to world war 2, it also lead to the Cold War. If Germany had won world war 1, I would argue that Germany would have been opposed to a communist Russia. While it is true they are the ones responsible for sending Lenin back to Russia, I believe they did so primarily to get Russia out of the war. If Germany was still in its full glory, power, and wasn't weakened due to the Versailles treaty and instead had won world war 1, they would have likely supported White Russia in the Russian Civil war, and that could have made the difference for Russia to not turn to communism. If Russia didn't turn communist, we would not have had the cold war. Finally, the fact that the land in the middle east that the Ottoman Empire had, was given as territory to France and the United Kingdom. This resulted in the UK to have a sphere of influence in the middle east, and America, being their new ally because of our involvement in world war 1, also sought to help the British regime in the middle east. Soon after world war 2, America and Britain began supporting a new regime in that area, where the Hussein family would take power. [3] We know, of course, how disastrous Sadam Hussein was for the middle east in recent decades. It can then be argued that the British imperialism in the middle east lead to the disasters we have in the middle east now. Had America not entered World War 1, the entente would not have been able to be in a position to demand territory from the Ottoman Empire. The Arabs in the area would not have solid justification to be angry at the west, since the west would not have put them under imperial rule. Thus, it may have remained under control of the Ottoman Empire, and many of our current problems in the middle east would not exist if we weren't involved in world war 1. To summarize all of the above: We had no real good reason to get involved in world war 1, and the fact we did get involved, it has lead to every single future conflict we have had, including World War 2, the Cold war, and the modern mess in the middle east. Sources: [1] https://history.state.gov... [2] http://www.nytimes.com... [3] https://www.globalpolicy.org...