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Woodrow Wilson’s “War Message to Congress”
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THE US & WILSON'S ROAD TO WAR
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Woodrow Wilson’s “War Message to Congress”
April 2nd, 1917
February 1917:
Zimmerman Telegram
November, 1916:
Wilson wins his second term as US President
August 4th, 1914:
after WWI had started Wilson declared US neutrality
April 6th, 1917:
The United States enters World War I
His plan was to still stay out of war, thus the campaign slogan for his re-election was “he kept us out of War”.
“I come from the South and I know what war is, for I have seen its terrible wreckage and ruin. It is easy for me as President to declare war. I do not have to fight, and neither do the gentlemen on the Hill who now clamor for it. It is some poor farmer's boy, or the son of some poor widow who will have to do the fighting and dying.”
-Woodrow Wilson
May 1915:
the shocking sinking of the Lusitania
April 2nd, 1917:
Wilson asked Congress to declare war on Germany
January 31st, 1917:
Sussex Pledge Broken
- British luxury liner
- Traveling from New York to England
- Passenger liner, not a merchant or military ship
- Out of the 1200 innocents who lost their lives, 128 were Americans
- Wilson threatened to break diplomatic ties with Germany
"It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars…But the right is more precious than peace and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts, for the ultimate peace of the world and for the liberation of its peoples. The world must be made safe for democracy."
-Woodrow Wilson, "War Message to Congress" (1917)