The Zimmermann telegram and the sinking of passenger ships are seen as mistakes on the German side that eventually pulled the US into the conflict. Were there similar mistakes that could have been made (or some that were made) by the British and French to make enemies in the US?
Is it correct to think that violating Belgian neutrality as violently as the Germans did to start the war made made the US neutral at best from the German perspective?
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Although history has shown that German saw these as accidents against the United States (the Germans even attempted to warm Americans boarding the Lusitania), it was well-known that Woodrow Wilson was pro-British. As a result, it is very unlikely that the U.S. would have sided with the Germans against the Allies.
As for mistakes made the British and French, it is certainly possible that they could have attacked American ships like German u-boats did, but the Germans in general were a lot more aggressive due to the belief that Britain still had the strongest Navy in the world at the time. This made the Germans more apt to challenge British dominance of the seas; this further created problems between the Americans and the Germans that the British and French did not need to concern themselves with to the already apparent strength of its naval forces.
Sorry if this reply sounds jumbled. Let me know if I need to go into more detail.