Woodrow Wilson hoped not to spend too much presidential time on foreign affairs. When Europe plunged into war in 1914, Wilson, who like many Americans believed in neutrality, saw America's role as ...

A Southerner and a Democrat, Woodrow Wilson rode the Progressive Movement into the White House in 1912. For his second term campaign in 1916, he promised to keep the USA neutral and not to enter WWI.

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On April 2, 1917, Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war on Germany. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. He was uncertain about so many things. But Woodrow Wilson wasn’t at all uncertain ...

World War One ended on 11 November 1918 ... Georges Clemenceau and Woodrow Wilson: the leaders of the UK, France and America, often known as the ‘Big Three’. Each of these leaders had ...

Woodrow Wilson - whose mother Janet 'Jessie' Woodrow ... In 1918, before meeting with world leaders in Paris for the World War One peace conference at Versailles, Mr Wilson was invited to London ...

Woodrow Wilson - whose mother Janet 'Jessie' Woodrow ... known to many as the leader who carried the country through World War One, was resident in the Oval Office between 1913 to 1921, but ...