Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson
noun
28th President of the United States; led the United States in World War I and secured the formation of the League of Nations (1856-1924)
• Derivationally related forms: ↑Wilsonian (for: ↑Wilson)

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Woodrow Wilson [Woodrow Wilson]
(1856–1924) the 28th US ↑President (1913–21). He was a Democrat and is remembered as an honest man who worked hard for world peace. Earlier in his career he had been President of ↑Princeton University (1902–10) and Governor of ↑New Jersey (1911–3). As US President, he tried to keep the US out of ↑World War I, but he finally sent US soldiers to join the Allied forces in 1917, saying that ‘the world must be made safe for democracy’. After the war Wilson’s ↑Fourteen Points were used as the basis for the peace agreement, and he was given the ↑Nobel Prize for peace in 1919. He also created the idea for the League of Nations and was greatly disappointed when ↑Congress decided that the US should not join it. Wilson’s government also established the ↑Federal Reserve System and the ↑Federal Trade Commission.

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