Carl Wilson

In 1917 President Woodrow Wilson presented a declaration of war to congress depicting the duty and responsibility of the U.S. to join in World War I. His request supported as to why we he was electing to go to war with Germany, expressed a confident and at times fearful language, and our trust relations with Germany. He expressed that the loans for war be assisted by raised taxes, rather that it be borrowed money. The thoughts of war were frowned upon by some, but an attack directly to our…

The book starts off with a prologue that gives a good background to the situation at hand. In the first chapter, President Wilson is trying to stem the American people towards his opinion. He claims this is “the war to end all wars,” and this was a “war for democracy.” Kennedy describes “the war for the American mind” that went along with America’s decision to declare war. Wilson had been…

In 1914 they invaded and conquered Belgium another neutral nation. This was an uncalled for action for the Germans to do because they were a neutral nation not wanting to be involved in this bloody and costly war. In May 1915 The Germans used the unfair game of submarine warfare against the Lusitania a passenger ship. A lot of civilians were killed and this was an uncalled for action towards innocent people. In January 1917 the Germans announced that now they would be using submarine warfare…

Woodrow Wilson is one of the best presidents who just served at a bad time as claimed by Kendrick A. Clements, a historian formerly at the University of South Carolina. Clements praises the Wilson administration for its foreign policies and helping America emerge as a world power. Jim Powell of the Cato Institute, on the other hand has a different opinion. According to Powell, Wilson is the worst president in American history. He says, in his need to join the League of Nations, Wilson refused to…

The speech was composed using the feedback of President Wilsons’ secret society “The Inquire”, who worked to gather two thousand reports and documents and at least one thousand two hundred maps, containing information that may be useful to the ending of the war. The speech was broadcast around the world. The last…

during a few times after. In 1917, Woodrow Wilson went to Congress to request an affirmation of war and it experienced the positions of voting and on December 17, 1917, the United States proclaimed war on Germany and history went ahead as we probably am aware it. Despite the fact that our association in World War I, was a discussion even before we entered the war due to individuals like Senator George Norris who totally protested the war. The subject of both Wilson 's supplication of the…

1. Bonus Army - In 1924, Congress rewarded World War I veterans with a bonus for their services in 1917-1918 for “saving” democracy. This bonus was able to be redeemed in 1945 for $1000 each. Many veterans were hit hard during the depression and marched up to the capital to obtain their entire bonus ahead of time. More or less twenty thousand impoverished veterans both of unemployment and war, formed the Bonus Expeditionary Force (BEF). They set up unsanitary public camps which created a menace…

Progressive presidents Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson embarked a sequence of executive reforms that affected the entire country. Roosevelt, directly influenced by reading muckraker Upton Sinclair’s 1906 book The Jungle, passed the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act that demanded the…

Over a century ago, America was taking shape, searching for order, and Americans were searching for their identities. Within the country, the population was growing and establishing the United States known today. Four intellectual authors shared their stories and views on history during the progressive era. Robert Wiebe, Richard White, Michael McGerr, and Robert Zieger were the authors who shared their knowledge with those interested in learning more about what transformed our country from the…

“Santana Adventures” I never realized when I was younger what the true meaning of family was. Through the many little adventures life brought to my family, I grew to learn exactly what it meant. One such adventure, began on a warm spring morning in early March. I was fourteen at the time, you know, that young, annoying, and awkward age when you aren’t sure whether you should “be cool” or just go home from school and watch Arthur. “Brrrriiinnnggg! Brrrriiinnnggg!” My alarm…