WW1 was a plus for american society since countries needed ammo and supplies for the war so american companies were making lots of money off of this war.
The american society was a trying to stay as neutral as possible and not go into war by isolating themselves from fighting and being allies with nobody and being enemies with nobody.
The american society wanted to stay as neutral as possible and not fight anyone but unfortunately Germany just had to go and blow up the U.S.S Lusitania with their U-Boats which then