America's Enterence into WWI was Ideological

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Was America’s Entrance into WWI Ideological or Economic?

“Our object…is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power and to set up amongst the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth insure the observance of those principles. Neutrality is no longer feasible or desirable where the peace of the world is involved and the freedom of its peoples…”

Woodrow Wilson said this to congress when he was addressing them to declare war against Germany. He is aware that even though he had fought so hard to keep neutral that the Germans had just pushed too hard. Wilson continues saying that the Untied States has no quarrel with Germany but merely wants to end the war and bring peace to the world. A peace without victory, that was Wilson’s goal. He believed that a peace can only be maintained if there is a partnership of democratic nations, that no autocratic government could be trusted to uphold its principles and “covenants.” Wilson believed that all people deserved to be free and that then and only then could peace be attained. He regretted entering America into WWI but knows that for the good of the world it had to have been done. Wilson was determined to bring peace and equality to the world so that all the nations would be peaceful, “so that she can do as God does.” Wilson was a very moral person and held his truths to be self-evident, he wanted to create a world of peace. He entered the Untied States into the war to do so. Wilson only meant there w to be one world war. During the first Great War America became the global superpower. Under the instruction of President Woodrow Wilson the ...

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