To connect those two events like that implies that you believe the US responded to the assassination with force.
Clearly, they didn't. In fact, the assassination had pretty much nothing to do with the US, specifically, joining the war outside of the fact that it started the war in the first place.
The US joined after the Zimmerman telegram because they thought the Germans were trying to re-ignite the Mexican-American war not because some Serbian got whacked.
Don't put words in my mouth. I never implied it was immediately.
To connect those two events like that implies that you believe the US responded to the assassination with force.
Clearly, they didn't. In fact, the assassination had pretty much nothing to do with the US, specifically, joining the war outside of the fact that it started the war in the first place.
The US joined after the Zimmerman telegram because they thought the Germans were trying to re-ignite the Mexican-American war not because some Serbian got whacked.