Woodrow Wilson: Formulator Of The League Of Nations

From the humblest beginnings, Woodrow Wilson was born on December 28, 1856 in Staunton, Virginia. Woodrow Wilson from a young age was an efficient and diligent worker. Woodrow Wilson overcame dyslexia by constantly trying to obtain academic excellence. He first started his prestigious education in Davidson College than went on to study law in Princeton University. After moving on from Princeton, Woodrow Wilson received his doctorate in political science in John Hopkins University. He than became the President of Princeton University in 1902. His reputation of prestigious academics and leadership allowed him to gain notoriety amongst other intellectuals. Woodrow Wilson than was elected the governor of New Jersey starting from 1911.As the Governor of New Jersey he quickly became a social reformer and a man of the people. Now Woodrow Wilson wants to spread his reform to the entire country with his platform of New Freedom. Woodrow Wilson’s goals for the future are progressive and impactful. He does not want create burdens for the people like the Republicans did. Instead he will work to fix problems as a united nation.

Woodrow Wilson, as the 28th President of the United States, enacted some of the most sweeping economic overhauls the American government has ever seen. The "Professor President", by compromising and cutting deals, was able to bring to life his vision of reform in the business world. The Underwood-Simmons bill, the Federal Reserve Act, the Federal Trade Commission Act and the Clayton Anti-Trust Act were all brought about by Wilson as tools to further his goal of taking away power from the large corporations and banks and giving it to the small businesses and entrepreneurs.

I have taken this from an external source to show the power of idealism, and how Woodrow was perceived.

As soon as World War One broke out, Woodrow Wilson, the president at that time immediately declared the United States neutral to maintain the nation’s stability. President Wilson thought the United States should take no part in a war where they were not affected. But, as the war carried on it was evident that a stance of neutrality was just clearly not the case. Even though they were not fighting in World War I, the United States were definitely involved. Whether it be loaning goods to a party of the war or rising turmoil with a belligerent nation, America did take part in the war before their actual entry. Voluntary or involuntary, the United States involved themselves in the war in many ways , most definitely contradicting Wilson’s policy of neutrality.

No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence .” President Woodrow Wilson could not maintain neutrality after a series of events that threatened the interests of the US. Wilson knew that he would not have the support of a diverse American public upon entering the war, so he came up with a plan. He designed the Committee on Public Information to advertise pro-war propaganda. He needed to convince the people that an involvement in the war was needed “to make the world safe for democracy .” Propaganda was heavily used to mobilize the public opinion of a united war effort, and it was also an attempt on homogenizing a pluralistic nation. The positive effects of this use were it unified a heterogeneous society, and it was able to get the Americans to invest their time and effort on the war. The negative effects of this were it caused hatred to those who were of the enemies’ ancestry, and false advertising lead to a loss of many innocent lives.

In 1900, the government was unresponsive to the wants of laborers because lawmakers favored business owners rather than employees. This can be shown in the Supreme Court’s undermining of the ICC which was a direct response to farmer-labor demands. With hostile courts and Congress, labor turned to collective bargaining with employers to get their demands addressed. (Henretta, Hinderaker, Edwards, & Self, 2015, p.520).

Wilson was elected twice to the Continental Congress, where he presented Pennsylvania and was a major factor in drafting the United States Constitution. Wilson was one of seven children born into a Presbyterian farming family on September 14, 1742 near St. Andrew, Scotland, to William Wilson and Alison Landall. He studied at the Universities of St. Andrews, Glasgow and Edinburgh, but he never got and degree. While he was a student, he studied Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, including Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, and Adam Smith. Imbued with ideas of the Scottish Enlightenment he moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in British America in 1766. Wilson began to read the law at the office of James Dickinson. After two years of studying he attended the bar in Philadelphia, and in the following year 1767, he set up his own practice in Reading, Pennsylvania. His office was very successful and he earned a small fortune in a few years. By then he had a small farm near Carlisle, Pennsylvania.On November 5, 1771, he married Rachel Bird, daughter of William Bird and Bridget Hulings; they had six children together: Mary, William, Bird, James, Emily and Charles. Rachel died in 1786, and in 1793 he married Hannah Gray, daughter of Ellis Gray and Sarah D'Olbear; the marriage produced a son named Henry, who died at age three. After Wilson's death, Hannah married Thomas Bartlett,

Lyndon Johnson was born in 1908 on a farm near Stonewall in the hill country of Texas. The white house was a bit away from his house. Johnson was a very clever young man. He had a job while in college. Johnson took on a teaching job. He was teaching fifth, sixth, and seventh. He got his teaching degree, and

According to family records, President Thomas Woodrow Wilson was born on December 28, 1865 in Staunton, Virginia. He was born to Doctor Joseph Ruggles Wilson, a prominent Presbyterian professor, and Janet Woodrow. Wilson spent most of his childhood in Augusta, Georgia, however he always took pride in being from Virginia. From a young age, Wilson had a strong sense of what was right and what was wrong; he also based his decisions on the righteousness of his options, making him to later be one of the most prominent Progressives and reformers. Wilson’s distinguished education background proved to help him with his reforms and Presidency. In 1873 Wilson entered Davidson College in North Carolina, starting his education career. After taking a year off from school, Wilson enrolled in Princeton University in 1875. He graduated in 1879 with academic and extracurricular honors. Within the same year, Wilson enrolled in the law school at the University of Virginia. However, he withdrew from school due to poor health and continued his law studies at home.

Woodrow Wilson, our 23rd president, became involved in a war that he did not want any part of. Wilson wanted to remain neutral and have peace as in his first term of office. During World War I Wilson’s roles in the war became well known in all countries. Wilson wanted peace more than anything else. In seeking for peace Wilson asked Congress for the U.S. to enter World War I. which may not sound like a peace strategy but Wilson felt it was the only way to stop Germany and gain peace. Wilson wrote his speech for world peace, Fourteen Points, that he was probably most famous for. He attended and played an integral part in The Treaty of Versailles. He was the founder of the League of Nations,

Woodrow Wilson was born as Thomas Woodrow Wilson – the son of Janet Woodrow and Joseph Ruggles Wilson, a Presbyterian minister. Thomas began using the first name of Woodrow in 1881 to honor his mother’s side of the family. Although Wilson would become a talented

Theodore Roosevelt born on October 27, 1858 at was is now Brownstone in New York . Theodores birth parents were his mother Martha Bulloch Roosevelt and his father Theodore Roosevelt, Sr. An event that happened in his life in order for it to be part of the cause he was the way he was , it was the lost of his mother and his wife both dying on the same day. On February 14th, 1884 . He then spent his time in Dakota and began to learn and concur loneliness. Then becoming a Spanish leader and later on ran for Governor and won he became Governor in 1898. Besides his mothers and

In the previous lectures, we discussed the end and the events took place of the World War I. After four long years of blood shedding the war ended on November 11, 1918. I am sure the war might have left its marks in the hearts of the innocent and harmless people of both sides, for several decades. I really liked President Wilson’s concept of peace, the 14 points, and the about the League of Nations. Those seemed more logical and just for both the sides of the War. While, is just not fair. I agree that the Allied Power won the war but blaming everything to Germany and not any other country of Central Power was not an act of injustice. I now believe that the treaty of Versailles was a spark for the huge fire that turned out after few decades,

To better understand the successes and failures of the 28th president of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, it is essential to define the image he portrayed to the American population during his presidency. Many Americans and historians will claim he was a man of impartiality and the one who led America into WWI. He had a very solid influence on Congress for the many domestic and foreign affair policies he endorsed. The goal is to illustrate how President Woodrow Wilson ran his presidency in the eyes of the American citizens. This will be done by examining the many facades that President Woodrow Wilson exhibited during his term as president. Upon researching the events of President Woodrow Wilson, it is clear that he was significant in moving our nation onward and supporting the American people in every which way possible.

"The League of Nations was doomed To failure from the start" Adam Jenner Many may believe that the League of Nations was doomed to failure as soon as the doors of their Geneva headquarters were opened; many may say that it was built on unstable foundations; that the very idea of it was a grave misjudgment by the powers that were. Indeed it is true that the League of Nations, when it was set up was marred with many fundamental flaws. The League of Nations was formed after the end of the First World War. It was an idea that President Wilson introduced as an international police force to maintain peace and to ensure the devastating atrocities like the First World War ever happening again. The principle mission of the League of Nations was to maintain World Peace. Their failure as the international peacekeeping organization to maintain world peace brought the outbreak of Second World War. Their failure in policing and preventing peace in settling disputes throughout Europe, erupted into the most devastating war ever. Through my analysis of the failures of the League of Nations to maintain world peace, my arguments will demonstrate the understandings of the reasons and events that created the most devastating environment for the Second World War.