Woodrow Wilson School Of Thought Analysis

Ideas, Theories & School of Thought:
President Wilson is seen as a liberal idealist, where the progressive movement instigated by Wilson had a big impact on modern politics. In relation to Wilson, he was more interested in keeping peace where he sought to reduce the amount of animosity in Europe and instead encouraged the strengthening of institutional agreements among our foreign relations. He understood that in order to end wars we must have the cooperation of everyone and that warfare is a global issue rather than national, where this concept spurred his idea for the League of Nations. The leagues purpose was to obtain peace in Europe and though it was reject in America it was utilized in Europe in 1920 and ultimately became the United Nations, which is one of the most important organizations that promotes international cooperation. During his re-election campaign Wilson was persistent is stating that we would keep America out of the first World War. Wilsons desire to be the mediator to end the war, where he traveled to Europe in in 1915 in hopes of instigating a peace conference in hopes to negotiating a peace treaty. However, once he was there he came to the realization that none of the powers where interested in negotiations and despite his effort to do so America entered the war, where he stated that declaring war against Germany was decaling that, “the world must be made safe for

democracy,” (Auchincloss, 118).
When the war ended on November 11, 1918, President Wilson aided with the signing of the armistice, through his Fourteen Points speech he led the way towards a peace settlement at the Paris Peace Conference on January 1919, where the the heads of the British, French and Italian governments were present.

Wilson aided in the negotiation of the Treaty of Versailles, where Wilson’s goal the prevention of future wars. It was there that Wilson introduced his concept of the League of Nation that was rejected by Congress because they feared that it could draw America into another

war.

Conclusion:
His ethical concern for the well-being of the United States and its populace, whether is be warfare of the security of our nation is what set Wilson up to be seen as a progressive reformer. Wilson instigated the Child Labor Act, imposed heavy taxes on the wealthy and sought to improve the educational system and the roads. established the Federal Reserve System which consisted of the set up of twelve federal banks across the nation, that would ultimately reform the banking and currency laws. His efforts also granted women their right to vote under the ninetieth Amendment, where prior to the amendment women were not allowed to own property and had no claim to any of their wages. I see Wilson as visionary who was ahead of his time who was ahead of his time. The way that his mind worked and contemplated the important of peace is very amenable. He was more concerned for the well-being of democracy, where he sought to utilize his power as president to have a peace settlement to prevent future wars. I see Wilson as a stupendous political leader who changed the way we think what a president should be - defender of the common good who placed great emphasize on ethics and morals that led his to reign as president to be one filled with changes that spurred the progressive movement in the United States and changed our political world for the better. He wanted people to think for themselves and that the public should have the right to rule themselves.
Published Works:
The Fourteen Point: Wilson’s purpose for this speech was to commemorate the end of the war, where Wilson was urging for peace. The fourteen points that were listed by President Wilson were intended by him to be utilized as guidelines for the peace settlement. Where the first five of the points were utilized to establish what were Wilson’s general ideals of peace. “Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in war, except as the seas may be closed in whole or in part by international action for the enforcement of international covenants,” where Wilson states that the seas shall be free of outside of territorial waters in peace and war, where only in the case of enforce treaties may the seas not be free. Point one calls for the discussion of peace treaties between nations to be public, where there should not be any deals made in private in order to end the animosity among nations and ending the feeling of distrust that resulted from the war. The rest of the eight points deal with the political and territorial problems that resulted in Europe. Where Germany was required to evacuate from various territories such as Russia, Belgium and from all the French lands as well as return Alsace-Lorraine to France. Point twelve states, “The Turkish portions of the present Ottoman Empire should be assured a secure sovereignty, but the other nationalities which are now under Turkish rule should be assured an undoubted security of life and an absolutely unmolested opportunity of autonomous development…” meaning that Turkey was granted its independence and that lands under the Turkish rule were able to become a self-governing nations. Ten months after President Wilson gave his Fourteen Points speech, Germany signed the armistice that was negotiated by Wilson.