Essays on President Woodrow Wilson

The voting process in every democratic nation helps its citizens to choose their preferred leaders in a free and fair manner. It acts as a part of their Bill of Rights and helps them shape how they want their country, state, or society to grow. The voting process helps a nation to grow as one through exercising fairness and legibility in all its interactions. Americans enjoy the freedom of voting as long they are citizens of America and have an identity card. However, it was not a similar case in the early 19th century as the constitution, at the ...

Spanish colonization in the Americas ended with the defeat of Spain in the Spanish-American War (1898). After sensationalist newspapers publicized the horrendous methods Spain used to stop the struggle for independence in Cuba, the American public felt sympathetic and public opinion inclined towards American intervention (“Grover Cleveland: American Interests In The Cuban Revolution”). The United States public sympathized with the Cuban rebels. The Treaty of Paris was signed Dec. 10, 1898, and Spain relinquished its hold on Cuba. US’s involvement in global affairs heightened during the cold war. The cold war was a period of rivalry between the ...

The First World War brought long term repercussions on the United States although its participation was rather limited and came quite late in the day. With President Woodrow Wilson out of office after serving two terms, the newly elected Warren Harding was not quite able to deal with the implications of the Versailles Treaty which handed out good concessions to the war’s victors such as France and Germany but was extremely harsh on the losers, Germany where the trouble in the country could only increase accordingly (Bowles 2011).

The United States also faced domestic issues at home which ...

Thesis: As of the present time, the absence of democracy and Western ideals of peace in areas such as Ukraine and North Korea emphasizes a possibility of America failing to act as a global police because one move they make may be read differently by the opposing side and declare war, which America is trying to prevent. - Since the end of the Cold War, the United States had been active to stop the onset of war or conflict in highly tensed nations which were either marred by terrorism or the lack of democracy under the Wilsonian foreign policy made ...

During World War I, the United States of America took a stance of neutrality in 1914. It was firm on its decision not to get involved with the brewing conflict across the globe. This choice was a consensus amongst the majority of the population who saw nothing but loss from participation in warfare. Many other countries like Germany, Russia, and Great Britain were compelled to side due to forged treaties between the two warring nations; Austria-Hungary and Serbia. However, claims about breach of certain rights have forced the previously impartial United States to seek swift actions towards its provoker, Germany (Kramer, ...