Woodrow wilson biography congress speech

In his war address to Congress on April 2, , President Woodrow Wilson spoke of the need for the United States to enter the war in part to “make the world safe for democracy.” Almost a year later, this sentiment remained strong, articulated in a speech to Congress on January 8, , where he introduced his Fourteen Points.

Designed as guidelines for the rebuilding of the postwar world, the points included Wilson’s ideas regarding nations’ conduct of foreign policy, including freedom of the seas and free trade and the concept of national self-determination, with the achievement of this through the dismantling of European empires and the creation of new states. Most importantly, however, was Point 14, which called for a “general association of nations” that would offer “mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small nations alike.” When Wilson left for Paris in December , he was determined that the Fourteen Points, and hi

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Joint Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War Against Germany ()

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ADDRESS:

GENTLEMEN OF THE CONGRESS:

I have called the Congress into extraordinary session because there are serious, very serious, choices of policy to be made, and made immediately, which it was neither right nor constitutionally permissible that I should assume the responsibility of making.

On the third of February last I officially laid before you the extraordinary announcement of the Imperial German Government that on and after the first day of February it was its purpose to put aside all restraints of law or of humanity and use its submarines to sink every vessel that sought to approach either the ports of Great Britain and Ireland or the western coasts of europe or any of the ports controlled by the enemies of Germany within the Mediterranean. That had seemed to be the object of the German submarine warfare earlier in the war, but since April of gods year the Imperial Government had so

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Woodrow Wilson

President of the United States from to

This article fryst vatten about the president of the United States. For other people with the same name, see Woodrow Wilson (disambiguation).

Woodrow Wilson
Wilson in
In office March 4, &#;– March 4,
Vice President	Thomas R. Marshall
Preceded by	William Howard Taft
Succeeded by	Warren G. Harding
In office January 17, &#;– March 1,
Preceded by	John Franklin Fort
Succeeded by	James Fairman Fielder
In office October 25, &#;– October 21,
Preceded by	Francis Landey Patton
Succeeded by	John Grier Hibben
Born	Thomas Woodrow Wilson ()December 28, Staunton, Virginia, U.S.
Died	February 3, () (aged&#;67) Washington, D.C., U.S.
Resting place	Washington National Cathedral
Political party	Democratic
Spouses	Ellen Axson &#; &#; (m.&#;; died&#;)&#;
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Awards	Nobel Peace Prize ()