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"The world must be made safe for democracy" was stated in President Wilson's War Message to Congress.
The resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare by Germany. Taking the SAT test?
President Woodrow Wilson asking Congress to declare war on Germany on April 2, 1917. On April 6, 1917, the United States Congress declared war upon the German Empire; on April 2, President Woodrow Wilson had asked a special joint session of Congress for this declaration.
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921. In April 1917, Wilson asked Congress to declare war. With 50 Representatives and 6 Senators in opposition, the declaration of war by the United States against Germany was passed by the Congress on April 4, 1917, and was approved by the President on April 6, 1917.
According to the Constitution, only Congress can formally declare war. In the case you mention, Congress declared war against 'Imperial Germany' on April 6, 1917 in a Joint Resolution. President Woodrow Wilson gave his approval of the declaration.
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Woodrow Wilson felt that not entering into World War I would be bad for democracy. When speaking to Congress he asked for a Declaration of War against Germany so that the world could be made safe for democracy.
On 2nd April1917, President Woodrow Wilson went before Congress to request a declaration of war against Germany. Wilson here cited Germany's violation of its pledge to suspend unrestricted submarine warfare in the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean, as well as its attempts to entice Mexico into an alliance against the United States. The U.S. Senate voted in support to declare war on Germany based on the citing.
Germany had sunk the Lusitania, which was a British liner carrying 128 American citizens, who all died. They also sunk many other merchant ships. Then Germany attempted to get Mexico to turn on the United States by sending them the Zimmerman note. This note was intercepted and sent to the U.S. The U.S. got increasingly angry at Germany, and President Woodrow Wilson asked for a declaration of war against Germany from Congress.
Only Congress can declare war. Presidents can ask Congress to declare war . The presidents who made such a request and had it granted were James Madison (against Great Britain), James Polk (against Mexico), William McKinley(against Spain), Woodrow Wilson (against Germany and allies) and Franklin Roosevelt (against Japan and allies)
He was the president of the United States, and in April 1917, he went to Congress to request a declaration of war against Germany, which brought the US into the war. He also had some fairly bold plans for the post-war world; some of these plans were used, and, for example, the League of Nations was created.
Teddy Roosevelt was president during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905, and won the Nobel Prize for negotiating an end to that war. Franklin D. Roosevelt declared war against Germany on 11 December 1941.