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 ...

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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 ...

He organized a Pan-African Congress in February 1919 in Paris with the goal of pressuring the assembling representatives of the Versailles Peace Conference to take the future of Africa seriously, ...

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 ...