Woodrow Wilson showed great leadership in his handling of World War I by making decisions that will help America, advocating for democracy throughout the war by using his foreign policy and by remaining neutral for most of the war. During his presidency, Woodrow Wilson showed great leadership in his handling of World War I by making decisions that help America, advocating for democracy and by remaining neutral for most of the war. The reasons and supporting evidence as to why Woodrow Wilson showed leadership in World War 1 are that he always made decisions that would benefit America. During the war, Woodrow Wilson observed that his country was dying on the battlefield, hastily he crafted a 14 point document that would settle disputes, arguments …show more content…
To display his advocacy for democracy, we can see him being sympathetic to smaller states during the Treaty of Versailles, we can see that in his 14 points he advocated for smaller states to be “equally heard out, regardless of their size or power” and for everyone to “respect everyone as a whole” as well. Wilson arrived in Paris in December 1919 and advocated for smaller countries to be able to speak of peace during the signing process, despite being unsuccessful his 14 points show that he continued to help smaller nations to be recognized, we can see this in his third point, he states the “establishment of an equality of trade conditions among all the nations consenting to the peace”. We can see here that he aims to make peace, regardless of the size of the nation, and wants to give every country the opportunity to trade with bigger countries or smaller countries. This is confirmed when he states his 14th point that “political independence and territorial integrity [of] great and small states alike (History Channel