In 1914, the first World War was beginning and the citizens of Great Britain and the United States needed understanding from their leaders as to how the war will be handled. United States president Woodrow Wilson and Great Britain's prime minister Lloyd George gave a speech about the circumstances, and though they did agree on many different points, on some occasions their speeches seemed to diverge in similarity. Woodrow Wilson and Lloyd George tackled their countries entrance into the great war with a similar a common goal with different reasons. The great war began they had all had similar reasons to go against Germany. Both speeches covered that the German people were power hungry and needed to fight a war of self defense for the peace
