Woodrow Wilson's Accomplishments

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World war one erupted in Europe and during this period, Woodrow Wilson was the president. Wilson had no experience or background relations of presidency, but he knew that he wanted to provide destiny and help create a new world, governed by morality and not by selfishness. With this it showed Wilson was a unique, brace president with the accomplishments he makes during his two terms.
This specific world war was different from all the other wars based off the fact that if you declare war on one, you declare war with all. For example, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia but since they have an alliance with Russia they will have Serbia back, then Russian has an alliance with France, who has an alliance with Great Britain.
So not only is Austria-Hungary

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