On April 2 , 1917 ,President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war on Germany, As he promised in his speech he wanted to, a new world that was based on “peace and justice” among the free and the people that are self-governing in the new world. However president Wilson before entering the great war he established that America was going to declare neutrality,which was vow to keep the united states out of the war. But as that …show more content…
believed that the autocratic government was the cause of the war instead of the democratic governments ,because of progressives which were people that lived mainly in the cities, were college educated, and believed that government could be a tool for change and were only interested in …show more content…
In World War I the Allies(Britain,France, Russia, Italy and the United States), acknowledged self-determination as a peace aim. In his Fourteen Points the essential terms for peace , president Woodrow Wilson listed self-determination as an important objective for the postwar