Woodrow Wilson's Failures

Article II section 1 Clause 2 where the framers established the Electoral College, requires each state to have an equal number of electoral votes as their senate and representatives, as the legislature may direct. The population of the state entails a system which separates votes that are proportionally equal to the residents. In section two, the president is the head of the executive branch and a chief of the armed forces. A Two-thirds senator present allows the president to makes treaties and appointments. The president must inform the congress of the country to see how everything is. In 1913, Woodrow Wilson continued George Washington’s “State of union speech” which then became a tradition that occurs In January or February every year.

The Unites States entered World War, Frank sent a telegram to the president, Woodrow Wilson saying that he is coming and if he doesn’t know how to use a telegram to tell him and he would show you. Frank did motion study training so he had to go to Fort Sill. Lille was waiting to go see her parents and now was the perfect time. They went on train to Oakland, California where he parents lived. The trip was a disaster Lill’s foot broke and Fred was train sick. When they got there Lillie started acting as if she was fifth teen

President Woodrow Wilson tried to remain neutral when World War I broke out in 1914, but failed when the sinking of the Lusitania, caused by German hands, killed 124 Americans (Foner, 734). President Wilson viewed Germany as “the natural foe of liberty,” and declared war on April 1917 by insisting that “The world must be made safe for democracy,” (Foner, 735, Schwartz 2/16/16). After the relentless battle between nations the war ended November 11th, 1918 (Schwartz 2/16/16). The government’s involvement during World War I extended, once radical progressive ideals, into reality by shaping paths for the United States to become politically involved with the world with Wilson’s fourteen-point plan, and at home by ratifying prohibition and women suffrage.

In 1913 president Wilson passed the Underwood Act resulting and the Federal Reserve BIll which included honest tarrif rates and reducig rates for and istition tax. He estabablished the Federal Trade commininsion to limit any unfair trade. His goals led to America to be neutaland tried to keeping peace with Great Britain he tried his best to not take the U.S to war. Wilson also endored women’s right to vote which led to 19th Admendment being ratified by majoritey of ⅔ states in America. The president was known as the leader od World War 1 and his attemps to initate League of Nation. Wilson intoruced tghe Fourteen Points as our basis of the treaty at Versailles which was the last point of the League of Nation ensurig peace.

Everyone dreams of being a great leader, but little did Woodrow Wilson know that he would lead the United States through the Great War. Initially, he preserved the United States’ neutrality, but later asked Congress for a declaration of war, though he still wished for peace. Wilson was a strong leader throughout World War I, but he knew that there needed to be a long-lasting peace. While his European allies were looking for power to change hands, Wilson was only looking for peace. Woodrow Wilson proved that peace was possible if the steps presented in his Fourteen Points speech were followed.

Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt were two of America’s great presidents. This is why I feel that both men were equally important in what they did and said they would do. Both in their own ways have added a little of what makes this country what it is today. Both had their own beliefs of how reform, empowerment of the people and foreign policy should be accomplished. As president, the main goal was to do what they felt best for the American people. In doing so, how different could they really be?

After America had finally established itself as an industrialized and urbanized nation to be reckoned with, the country had turned to follow a new set of ideologies described as progressive thinking; hence, the following of the Progressive Era. The Progressive Era was a period of widespread social activism and political reform that spread across the United States, and was in a response to problems that arose from immigration, industrialization, urbanization, and governmental corruption. Following the Presidential Election in 1912, this set of progressive ideologies was most sought after in a presidential candidate. This is one of the main reasons why Woodrow Wilson had won. Although many other candidates had also followed these progressive

The modern presidency has in a sense become a double-edged sword in that presidents have become beneficiaries of anything positive that can be attributed to government, but also can be blamed for anything bad occurring in society. Quite simply, the modern president has become the center of our political system (The Modern Presidency, 2004). The men who have dealt with this double-edged sword known as the modern presidency have often walked a very fine line between effectiveness and ineffectiveness, but all have attempted to use their power in one way or another.

On April 2, 1917, President Wilson wrote and spoke one of his famous speech: War Message. President Wilson wants to ensure the people 's hope and faith from the war. As President Wilson (1917) stated in his speech "Each nation must decide for itself how it will meet it... Our motive will not be revenge or the victorious assertion of the physical might of the nation, but only the vindication of right, of human right, of which we are only a single champion."was to fix the issue the nation was in. President Wilson wants to show the people that we need to get involved war for the loss of many American lives that Germany took. Wilson persuades to Congress to go to war. President Wilson shows his persuasion effectively by using rhetorical strategies. Each strategy he used gave more persuasion to Congress to declare war on Germany. All the persuasion he used to convince Congress was put in his famous speech War Message.

Prior to entering the office in 1913, Woodrow Wilson had no experience in the realm of international relations. He was formerly a college professor and a left extremist, but he surprised many with his military actions. Before entering WWI, Wilson had a lot of ideas about convictions and ideas about global issues, despite not possessing a lot of knowledge about international relations. The first policy passed was made by Wilson, and the Secretary of State, William Jennings Bryan. It was a diplomatic policy based off of idealism, referred to as the “cooling off” treaties. Between 1913 and 1914, the nations that participated pledged not to go to war over the period of twelve months over disagreements. There was little meaning that came out of it that is shown in the after math of World War I. In the very beginning Woodrow Wilson did stick to his words and his idealism ideology, but it did not last for too long.

In the early months of 1918, the dynamics of The Great War ravaging Europe changed dramatically. On March 3rd, Germany and the Russian Bolsheviks signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, officially ending Russia’s involvement in the war and freeing Germany’s forces previously occupied on the Eastern Front . That same month, Germany launched an extensive attack in France along the Somme River, knocking a devastating blow to the Allies. By the summer of 1918, the United States had escalated it’s involvement in the war, sending over mass amounts of troops and coordinating with European powers to essentially back the German offensive into a position of little advancement. As Germany recognized its failing position in the war, the officials in the German High Command began quietly pursuing negotiations of peace and cease fire, not from their European counterparts, but from American President Woodrow Wilson . Germany was hoping to benefit from President Wilson’s ideals of peace and justice for all, ideals he had laid out publicly that year in a January speech outlining his “blueprint for a new democratic world order.” These Fourteen Points became the cornerstone of Wilson’s contribution to the peace negotiations following the armistice that ended the war in November of 1918. Focusing on the belief that an established system of democracy, communication and peace would prevent further atrocities like World War I, the Fourteen Points centered on equal representation and opportunity

President Wilson was determined to achieve peace. He based his peacemaking efforts in the academic argument Fourteen Points. Ideas of freedom of the seas, internationalism and justice for all were embedded in his idealistic approach, in an attempt to making long lasting peace.

Woodrow Wilson’s presidency was by many accounts one of the most successful in American history. Not only did his domestic affairs and reform policies give birth to the modern age of liberalism but his foreign policies would lead the United States to victory in World War I. This would in turn contribute to the United States involvement in world affairs.

Woodrow Wilson was the first Southerner to be elected president after the Civil War. Born on December 28, 1856 in Staunton, Va., he was the son of a Presbyterian minister who supported the Confederates. Wilson assumed the presidency after a whirlwind career as a college professor, university president and New Jersey governor. However, Wilson left the Oval Office just as heartbroken as the Confederate soldiers that returned home when he was a boy.

During the election year of 1920, America wanted to relax and enjoy winning the war and American life, so people rallied behind Warren G. Harding of Ohio who promised to restore “normalcy” to the country. Though seen as a good man, he was corrupt, did not have strong principles, and scandals arose in his 3rd year of presidency. In 1923, he died of food poisoning while making a trip to the west coast to give speeches. Harding’s vice president, Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts, took over and was very shy and laid-back approach to the presidency which was good because the economy was doing fine. He won again in 1924. However, there were still issues occurring in the nation such as the Prohibition, the decline of morality, and the rise of atheism.