President Woodrow Wilsonopens in a new window” by Harris & Ewing – National Star-Spangled Banner Centennial, Baltimore, Maryland, September 6 to 13, 1914opens in a new window

Debating World War I

 “President Woodrow Wilsonopens in a new window” by Harris & Ewing – National Star-Spangled Banner Centennial, Baltimore, Maryland, September 6 to 13, 1914opens in a new window (1914).. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commonsopens in a new window.

The documents in chapter 6 offer a sense of how Americans were reacting to the breakout of war in Europe. For this forum, choose two of the documents in chapter 6 to discuss. Examine the arguments in the documents carefully and create a post that highlights your discoveries.

Please try and select documents that have not been discussed by your classmates in previous threads. Do comment, however, on the points that those other documents reveal.

In creating your post and/or commenting on others, please devote some time to:

Discussing the role of President Woodrow Wilson in terms of formulating US foreign policy on World War I.

Was the president a “hopeless dreamer”?

Or was he a “prescient advocate” for a new world order?