Compare And Contrast Woodrow Wilson's War Message To Congress

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In Woodrow Wilson’s war message to congress (1917), the President was asking congress for a declaration of war to join the fighting in World War I. Woodrow Wilson declared, “The world must be safe for democracy,” (Wilson pg. 740). The War Message to Congress shows that Woodrow Wilson thought that the biggest threat to the world’s freedom was the existence of an autocratic government. An autocratic government being a government in which one person makes the decisions and controls the body of people they rule without having to worry about the opinions of their people. An important thing to consider is that the American civil war ended less than fifty years prior to President Woodrow Wilson delivering his message to congress. So you can argue