Who did Woodrow Wilson support in World War 1?

Answer 1

Woodrow Wilson provided many of the key ideas and personally negotiated many details in the peace treaty that ended World War I. He created the slogan "Peace without Victory" to persuade America to not go to war.Though when Germany stopped sea traffic, sunk U.S. ships, and killed innocent Americans, Woodrow Wilson declared war. Nine months later, he introduced the Fourteen Points plan for peace, which included freedom of navigation of the seas, the return of land, and and independent Polish state. A year later, he went to Versailles to negotiate a treaty with the other of the big four (Italy, France, and England). The Allies disliked Wilson's emphasis on freedom for ethnic groups. At first, Germany refused to sign the peace treaty because officials did not want to have part of their army taken away, return the land they had taken, and pay for the damages, but then they did after pressure from France. Wilson did not want to force Germany to give up everything, but eventually he lost that argument with France. So finally. after battling for and losing some of what he wanted Wilson signed the the Treaty of Versailles, and peace, though a flawed peace, was restored to the world.

Answer 2

Woodrow Wilson initally hoped to remain neutral in WW1, even running his 1916 re-election campaign with the slogan "he kept us out of war".

Eventually, succumbing to public pressure, Wilson declared war