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  2. Oct 29, 2009 · Wilson tried to keep the United States neutral during World War I but ultimately called on Congress to declare war on Germany in 1917. After the war, he helped negotiate a peace treaty that...

  3. Wilson was raised in Georgia and South Carolina against the backdrop of the American Civil War. He studied at Princeton University, briefly became a lawyer and then went to John Hopkins...

  4. Aug 1, 2020 · On March 4, 1913, Woodrow Wilson, 56, was sworn into office as the 28 th President of the United States; he became the first Southerner to attain this feat since the American Civil War. Fast Fact: Did you know that Franklin D. Roosevelt (later 32nd President of the U.S.) served in Woodrow Wilson’s cabinet as the assistant Secretary of the Navy?

  5. Jan 26, 2011 · After his experience in the Civil War, Wilson would go on to become dean of Princeton University. He would also become the Governor of New Jersey. In time, he would seek the Presidency.

  6. Wilson's victory made him the first Southerner to win a presidential election since the Civil War, the first Democratic president since Grover Cleveland left office in 1897, [108] and the first and only president to hold a Ph.D. [109]

  7. Wilson's second term was dominated by America's roles fighting and financing the World War, and designing a postwar peaceful world. In April 1917, when Germany resumed unrestricted submarine warfare, Wilson asked Congress to declare war in order to make "the world safe for democracy."

  8. Sep 13, 2024 · Woodrow Wilson created the League of Nations after World War I (1914–18). He presided over ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment , giving women the right to vote , and laws that prohibited child labour and that mandated an eight-hour workday for railroad workers.

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