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Resch, John P., ed. Americans at War: Society, culture, and the home front: volume 3: 1901-1945 (2005) Schaffer, Ronald. America in the Great War: The Rise of the War-Welfare State (1991) Trask, David F. The United States in the Supreme War Council: American War Aims and Inter-Allied Strategy, 1917–1918 (1961) Trask, David F.
Wilsonianism, or Wilsonian idealism, is a certain type of foreign policy advice.The term comes from the ideas and proposals of United States President Woodrow Wilson.He issued his famous Fourteen Points in January 1918 as a basis for ending World War I and promoting world peace.
Fanny Garrison Villard, daughter of William Lloyd Garrison, chair of the August 1914 Woman's Peace Parade Committee, and initiator of the Woman's Peace Party. Although the establishment of a permanent organization did not follow for more than four months, the roots of the Woman's Peace Party lay in a protest march of 1,500 women in New York City on August 29, 1914. [1]
The future of the world was being determined on the battlefield, and American national interest demanded a voice. Wilson's definition of the situation won wide acclaim, and, indeed, has shaped America's role in world and military affairs ever since. Wilson saw that if Germany would win, the consequences would be bad for the United States.
American imports and exports plunged by more than two thirds, but since international trade was less than 5% of the American economy, the damage done was limited. The entire world economy, led by the United States, had fallen into a downward spiral that got worse and worse, and in 1931–32 began plunging downward even faster.
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. The Fourteen Points was a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I.The principles were outlined in a January 8, 1918 speech on war aims and peace terms to the United States Congress by President Woodrow Wilson.
Democrat Woodrow Wilson made all the major foreign policy decisions as president, from 1913 to his mental breakdown in late 1919. Other key foreign policy figures in the Wilson administration include Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan, [1] and "Colonel" Edward M. House, Wilson's key foreign policy adviser until 1919. [2]
Due in large part to the anti-German atrocity propaganda composed by British Intelligence at Wellington House and introduced into the American news media by Australian-born Providence Journal editor John R. Rathom, pro-Neutrality groups completely lost their broader influence.