American leaders explained their decision to enter world war i by saying they wanted to win the war to gain new territory. keep the oceans safe for shipping. punish those who made war on civilians. make the world safe for democracy.

Make the world safe for democracy

which is ironic because overseas they where fighting for the freedom of other people but back at home there was still massive amounts of segregation against blacks and other minority groups

Explanation:

American leaders explained their decision to enter World War I by saying they wanted to make the world safe for democracy.

Explanation:

On April 2, 1917, US President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war on Germany in order to make the world safe for democracy in what became known as his War Message. For Wilson, as well as for many American leaders, Germany's militarism was a threat democracy to all nations because its government was violent to both their own domestic constituents and to other democratic nations, and, as declared by Wilson: “No autocratic government could be trusted to keep faith within it or observe its covenants.”

your answer is

to dominate europe

and i know for a fact it can't be the others