Woodrow Wilson presentation

Thomas woodrow wilson

Staunton, Virginia, 1856 - Washington 1924

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

Woodrow Wilson

01. life

He was born in Virginia in 1856. He was the son of a Presbyterian minister who during the Civil War was a pastor in Augusta, Georgia.

• Graduated at Princeton
• Graduated at University of Virginia Law School
• Became president of Princeton in 1902

02. early political life

Wilson served as governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913, during which he won the passage of several progressive reforms. These reforms aimed at:

• fighting corruption
• protecting the public administration from the interference of large trusts

03. president of the usa

Cons

pros

As a politician, was a determined supporter of racial segregation, which his administration reintroduced into the federal government after Lincoln’s desegregation in 1863

He was the democratic presidential candidate in 1912, and won the elections with an overwhelming majority over his opponents. He initiated a profound reform action, promoting:

• the reduction of customs tariffs
• federal control over the banking system
• the application of progressive taxation
• the legalization of the strike

04.Foreign policy

In foreign policy, Wilson attempted to lay the foundations for cooperation with the states of Latin America.

However, when the political and economic interests of the United States were directly threatened, he did not hesitate to face military intervention, marked by models of imperialism and white suprematism among the most marked in US history:

• in 1915 the USA took direct control of Haiti
• in 1916 they landed in Santo Domingo, where they established a military government

05.THE start of wwi

1914-1918

At the outbreak of the world war, he proclaimed the US neutrality The policy of neutrality earned him re-election to the presidency in 1916, but with a few votes off on the Republican candidate

06.the usa join the war

After the Germans came back to the indiscriminate submarine warfare, Wilson presented to the Senate the declaration of war on Germany (6 Apr. 1917)

Massive American effort slowly tipped the balance in favor of the Allies. American aid was decisive for the end of the war.

06.after the war

...fails in america

the league of nations...

Wilson went before Congress in January 1918, to enunciate American war aims–the Fourteen Points, the last of which would establish “A general association of nations…affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.”

He later presented to the Senate the Treaty of Versailles, containing the Covenant of the League of Nations. But the election of 1918 had shifted the balance in Congress to the Republicans. The Treaty of Versailles wan't ratified.

07.end of his carreer

The President, against the warnings of his doctors, had made a national tour to mobilize public sentiment for the treaty. Exhausted, he suffered a stroke and nearly died. Tenderly nursed by his second wife, Edith Bolling Galt, he lived until 1924.

08.the 14 points

1. Open diplomacy without secret treaties2. Economic free trade on the seas during war and peace 3. Equal trade conditions 4. Decrease armaments among all nations 5. Adjust colonial claims 6. Evacuation of all Central Powers from Russia and allow it to define its own independence 7. Belgium to be evacuated and restored

8. Return of Alsace-Lorraine region and all French territories 9. Readjust Italian borders 10. Austria-Hungary to be provided an opportunity for self-determination 11. Redraw the borders of the Balkan region creating Roumania, Serbia and Montenegro 12. Creation of a Turkish state with guaranteed free trade in the Dardanelles 13. Creation of an independent Polish state 14. Creation of the League of Nations

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10. Bibliography

Bibliographic references

• https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/thomas-woodrow-wilson/
• https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/woodrow-wilson/
• Kissinger H. 1994 "Diplomacy" Simon & Schuster, New York.

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