Woodrow Wilson's Autocratic Government

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Woodrow Wilson believes that if the United States is victorious in World War I, there will be a brand new world that will be centered around peace and justice amongst the free people of the world. Wilson sees autocratic government as the causes of war because one person has all of the power. They cannot be trusted, only people who are free and self govern are trust worthy. Wilson uses the Germans as an example. He says that they did not have a problem with them, that they only had friendship and sympathy towards them. However since they were an autocratic government they acted on impulse when they entered the war and their people had no say in the matter.
Carrie Chapman Catt described the Unites States as being half democratic and half autocratic.

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