Dbq 19 World War 1 Essay

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position that the United States had absolutely “no part in making” the war. Wilson´s attitudes were clear and explicitly expressed to the domestic public but were even known to the European powers at war. Indeed some months before the United Stated entered the war, Wilson, despite his reluctance to be involved in the war was asked to mediate between the belligerent, but he refused and instead he urged all governments to make “an avowal of their respective views as to the terms upon which the war might be concluded and the arrangements which would be deemed satisfactory.” In his reply to the Allied and the central powers addressed the Senate on January 22, 1917, a little more than two months before United States entered the war against Germany, Wilson appealed for a settlement of the conflict that the peace “must be a peace without victory...Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser , a victor´s terms imposed upon the vanquished It would be accepted in humiliation… and would leave…a bitter memory upon which terms of peace would rest not permanently, but only as upon quicksand”. He spoke of rejection of the policy of balance of power, “government by the consent of the governed” and freedom of the sea. In this notable speech Wilson …show more content…
In mid-march four unarmed American merchantmen were sunk by German U-boat killing thirty-sex persons. On April 2, 1917 in the Chamber of the House of the representatives Wilson called upon Congress to recognize the state of war that had been ´thrust´ upon the United States. The Congress response on 4 and 6 1917 was that ´the state of war … which has thus been thrust upon the United States is hereby formally
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