world war 1and woodrow wilson?

Answer 1

Thomas Woodrow Wilson, (December 28, 1856 - February 3, 1924), was the 28th President of the United States. A devout Presbyterian and leading intellectual of the Progressive Era, he served as president of Princeton University then became the reform governor of New Jersey in 1910. With Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft dividing the Republican vote, Wilson was elected President as a Democrat in 1912. He proved highly successful in leading a Democratic Congress to pass major legislation including the Federal Trade Commission, the Clayton Antitrust Act, the Underwood Tariff, the Federal Farm Loan Act and most notably the Federal Reserve System. Re-elected narrowly in 1916, his second term centered on World War I. He tried to negotiate a peace in Europe, but when Germany began unrestricted submarine warfare against American shipping, he called on Congress to declare war. Ignoring military affairs, he focused on diplomacy and finance. On the home front he began the first effective draft in 1917, raised billions through Liberty loans, imposed an income tax on the wealthy, set up the War Industries Board, promoted labor union growth, supervised agriculture and food production through the Lever Act, took over control of the railroads, and suppressed left-wing anti-war movements. He paid surprisingly little attention to military affairs, but provided the funding and food supplies that made Allied victory in 1918 possible. In the late stages of the war he took personal control of negotiations with Germany, especially with the Fourteen Points and the Armistice. He went to Paris in 1919 to create the League of Nations and shape the Treaty of Versailles, with special attention on creating new nations out of defunct empires. Wilson collapsed with a debilitating stroke in 1919, as the homefront saw massive strikes and race riots, and wartime prosperity turn into postwar depression. He refused to compromise with the Republicans who controlled Congress after 1918, effectively destroying any chance for ratification of the Treaty of Versailles. The League of Nations went into operation anyway, but the U.S. never joined. Wilson's idealistic internationalism, whereby the U.S. enters the world arena to fight for democracy and liberalism, has been a highly controversial position in American foreign policy, serving as a model for "idealists" to emulate or "realists" to reject for the following century. The consensus of presidential experts ranks him in the first or second tier of best presidents.
Wilson spent 1914 through the beginning of 1917 trying to keep America out of the war in Europe. He offered to be a mediator, but neither the Allies nor the Central Powers took his requests seriously. Republicans, led by Theodore Roosevelt, strongly criticized Wilson’s refusal to build up the U.S. Army in anticipation of the threat of war. Wilson won the support of the U.S. peace element by arguing that an army buildup would provoke war. He vigorously protested Germany’s use of submarines as illegal, causing his Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan to resign in protest in 1915.

While German submarines were sinking allied ships, Britain had declared a blockade of Germany, preventing neutral shipping carrying “contraband” goods to Germany. Wilson protested this violation of neutral rights by London. However, his protests to the British were not viewed as being as forceful as those he directed towards Germany. This reflects the fact that while Britain was violating international law towards neutral shipping by mining international harbors and killing sailors (including Americans), their violations were not direct attacks on the shipping of Americans or other neutrals, while German submarine warfare directly targeted shipping that benefited their enemies, neutral or not, violating international law and resulting in visible American deaths.

Answer 2

You really need to ask a question, not just throw subjects out there.

By the way, it was not Wilson that pushed for the harsh treatment of Germany following the war, it was England and France.

League of Nations was Wilson's idea but the Senate would not pass the Treaty of Versailles with the L o N included so we were never members of it and thus, it failed. It did not lead to the UN but it would not be a stretch to consider it the model the UN is based upon....

Answer 3

Many people don´t know that the real reason for which the USA declared war on Germany in the I Worl War was due to the "Zimmerman Report".

See it in the Internet.

This Report advised W.Wilson that Germany had been planing and supporting Mexico to attack the USA.

When the US congress received the "Zimmerman Report" in 1917, after the unrestricted submarine warfare that the US had been somehow tolerating, additionally to the sinking of the "Lusitania" in 1915, finally decided it was too much and on april 1917 declared war on Germany.

After the Central Powers (German, Austro-Hungarian , and Ottoman Empires) had been defeated, president Wilson tried to establish a just peace but his former Allies did not agree, additionaly to this he did not receiving the necessary support from congress, so his 14 point to create a just peace were not considered.

Only the last point was taken into account giving birth to the Society of Nations. Now the United Nations.

It seems that his frustration, sadness and sensation of failure, finally killed him.

Answer 4

jose is more than a little off-- WWI was 1914-1918. Wilson founded the league of nations, which collapsed and did not give birht to the UN. Wilson died of complicaitons of a stroke, and during his illness the white house was largely run by his wife.
many historians beleive his ruthless post-war treatment of germans was the seed that grew to become WWII.

Answer 5

I agree with fate. Wilson meant that he was making it safe for democracy in the world. Oh wait, that's just rearranging the question O_o! But yea, mainly communism couldn't threaten it anymore. The US had been active in Imperialism earlier, so I think it was mainly about communism and it threatening democracy.