PRESIDENT WILSON CALLS FOR DECLARATION OF WAR
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) In his address to Congress of April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson called attacks on allied shipping by German submarines to be "a warfare against mankind". Consequently, the President called for a declaration of war on Germany.
President Wilson said...
"There are many months of fiery trial and sacrifice ahead....civilization seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace..."
"We shall fight for democracy....and make the world itself at last free. God helping (America) can do no other."
The United States Senate approved the war declaration on April 4th and the House of Representatives followed on April 6th. The United States of America had entered the war to "make the world safe for democracy." Very soon, America's "doughboys" would be on their way "over there."
SOURCE
"U.S. Entry Into World War I, 1917," United States Department of State, Office of the Historian, www.history.state.gov/
President Wilson Asks for War Declaration
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) In his address to Congress of April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson called attacks on allied shipping by German submarines to be "a warfare against mankind". Consequently, the President called for a declaration of war on Germany.
President Wilson said...
"There are many months of fiery trial and sacrifice ahead....civilization seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace..."
"We shall fight for democracy....and make the world itself at last free. God helping (America) can do no other."
The United States Senate approved the war declaration on April 4th and the House of Representatives followed on April 6th. The United States of America had entered the war to "make the world safe for democracy." Very soon, America's "doughboys" would be on their way "over there."
SOURCE
"U.S. Entry Into World War I, 1917," United States Department of State, Office of the Historian, www.history.state.gov/
President Wilson Asks for War Declaration
April 2, 1917
Library of Congress Photo
Library of Congress Photo
