- (Woodrow) Wilson
Woodrow Wilson was the 28th president of the United States. President Wilson served two terms from 1913 to 1921.
During his first term, he was able to keep the United States out of World War I. By 1917, Wilson knew this was no longer possible, and he asked Congress to declare war on Germany.
On January 8, 1918, he made a speech to Congress outlining “Fourteen Points” that justified the war and called for a plan to maintain peace after the war.
President Wilson said, “We entered this war because violations of right had occurred which touched us to the quick and made the life of our own people impossible unless they were corrected and the world secure once for all against their recurrence.”
The war ended that year and Wilson traveled to Paris to work out the details of the surrender by Germany.
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