Responses to the war

The United States declaration of war mentioned a lot about the government and the country of Germany. It also talked about the rights of the people and wanting to make peace and encourage freedom. The United States wanted to take action against imperialistic Germany and their use of unrestricted submarine warfare as seen with the sinking of the Lusitania in May. Even if you can't see the whole passage, my guess is that the tone was reasonable and straight forward, where as the German response seemed more violent and belligerent towards the United States. You could probably find some mention in the German response of the US being ignorant because we were previously warned not to boat in those waters because of the prospect of being sunk. We ignored those warnings and because of that many people perished and it indirectly forced our involvement in the war. Germany obviously didn't seem regretful or sorry about this incident because they had already warned us so they accepted and embraced the fact that we were entering the war.