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Woodrow Wilson, Born in Virginia in 1856 and raised in Georgia and South Carolina, was the 28th president of the United States. He enacted significant reform legislation during his two terms. Surprisingly, he was a political novice who had held only one public office before becoming president, but fortunately enough possessed considerable political skill. He was a brilliant and effective public speaker, but he found it difficult to work well with other government officials because he did not deal well with disagreements. Wilson developed a program of progressive reform and asserted international leadership in building a new world order. In 1917 he proclaimed American entrance into World War I a crusade to make the world "safe for democracy" (similar to George W. Bush, who has used this phrase in his war against terrorism).
In 1912, Wilson used his reputation as a progressive with strong southern roots to run for the presidency as a Democrat. He won this election with 435 electoral votes, beating Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive), and William H. Taft (Republican). He later ran for re-election. The U.S. presidential election of 1916 took place while Europe was involved in World War I. Woodrow Wilson campaigned for reelection on a pledge of continued neutrality in the Great War in Europe, while Charles Evans Hughes (the Republican candidate) called for a program of preparedness. Since Wilson had successfully pressured the Germans to suspend unrestricted submarine warfare, it was difficult for Hughes to attack Wilson's campaign.
Wilson decided that only a league of nations that would confront potential threats with the strength of its united military would help to keep world peace. He tried to act as a peacemaker in December 1916, when he asked the Central Powers and Allies to announce their terms to end the war. He appealed for “peace without victory” in an address the Senate on January 1917. But in this calling for peace, he was not including...
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