...Introduction: Woodrow Wilson was the president of the United States of America – USA from 1912 through the first world war – WW1. At the end of the war in 1918, he distinguished himself as the greatest political figure in the international arena with his vision for strong international peace body which he elaborated in his fourteen points speech. (UNOG, Online: 2009) The fourteenth point of his speech was the formation on League of Nations which will usher in justice, peace, freedom and concord. The major participants in the formation of the league of the nation were the Great Britain, France, and the United States of America to preserve the future global peace and forestall such conflicts like first world war. (University of Virginia, Online: 2009)The League was based on the covenant which was written into the Treaty of Versailles and other peace treaties and provided for an assembly, a council and a secretariat with each section vested with a task to help the league maintain peace (UNOG, Online: 2009) Franklin D. Roosevelt the President of the United States of America, Winston Churchill the Prime Minister of the Great Britain and other notable leaders reasoned that the destructive consequences of WW2 warranted the call to form an international organization which would play a vital role in achieving the global peace. (US Department of States, Online:2005 and National Archives, Online: 2009) Hence, the United Nations replaced the League of the Nations after the...
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...This person being presented is no other then our famous president Thomas Woodrow Wilson. The larger picture being stroked on the canvas is Wilson’s path to the presidential election. Unlike most whom experience different paths to the crown.Wilson fought a battle to obtain the throne, and excepted with attitude of gratitude . Being a congressional famous president the historical context that is highlighted, or outlined in history was the great world war one fought between the central powers; and the entente powers. World war one is an incredible battle lasting...
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...According to the article, “Alice Paul Biography,” Paul was born on January 11, 1885 in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey. Due to being raised by an affluent Quaker family, Paul graduated from Swarthmore College in 1905, and then furthered her education in both New York City and England. During her time in London, Paul joined the women's suffrage movement in Britain, led by Emmeline Pankhurst, in which she learned many of the tactics and personalities that she would then utilize for the women’s suffrage movement in the United States. The article, “'How long must we wait?' Alice Paul wanted action on votes for women, so she took her demands straight to the top,” mentioned that along with Paul’s experiences as a member in the women’s suffrage movement in Britain, her education in political science also influenced her tactics for the women’s suffrage movement in the U.S.. Paul, unlike many others, believed that president Woodrow Wilson was the key to the implementation of a women’s suffrage amendment. Many were troubled with her obsession with...
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...through a coalition of suffragists, temperance groups, reform-minded politicians, and women's social-welfare organizations. Although Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton devoted 50 years to the woman's suffrage movement, neither lived to see women gain the right to vote. But their work and that of many other suffragists contributed to the ultimate passage of the 19th amendment in 1920. Two groups that contributed to the passage of the 19th amendment the women organizations the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), founded in 1890, and the National Women’s Party (NWP), founded in 1913 and led by Alice Paul. Alice Paul and other women of the National Women's Party picketed the White House. They wanted then President Woodrow Wilson to support a Constitutional amendment giving all American women suffrage, or the right to vote. Women gained voting right in the west before the east and south and many wonder why. I believe it was because of money and development the powers that be were interested in getting the women votes to help them control development by supporting their agenda in congress, in other words the more votes they had to help their party win the election the more powerful they would become and the more money they...
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...Bennett, Edward M. Recognition of Russia. Blaisdell Publishing Company, 1970. Pp 226 Edward Bennett was a professor at Washington State University. It appears that he had other works published, which followed the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Bennett used many sources for this book from a mix of primary and secondary sources, but appeared to use more secondary sources to support his thesis. Edward Bennett examines the U.S. policy of recognition and non-recognition during the time from President Woodrow Wilson administration through Roosevelt’s and the recognition of Russia and its effects on the American society. Bennett shows that a student must realize a states right to deny recognition to another state. He shows during Wilson’s administration the move away from the de facto policy. Bennett then try’s to show how effective Wilson’s non-recognition doctrine had been since its adoption to its abridgement in 1933. During this period he illustrated the differing view from Wilson’s non-recognition to Roosevelt finally extending diplomatic recognition to Russia and the effects that ensued. Prior to 1913 the United States practiced a de facto recognition towards governments of other countries. The U.S. practiced this form of recognition mainly on the basis it was the way that they had gained diplomatic recognition from France. During the time before the non-recognition the US had used the de facto (functional control) form and then the diplomatic recognition...
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...progressive era also brought awareness to the importance of education and started the reformation of the system. It was during this time that more schools were built and teachers’ salaries were raised. There was two major turning points in the in progressive era, the first is the Women Suffrage Movement. The National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA), which was founded in 1890, the second is The National Women’s Party (NWP) which was founded in 1913 and was led by Alice Paul. NAWSA worked many states to try and convince opponents that women were a valuable asset to society and deserved the right to vote. Alice Paul was more aggressive when it came to women’s rights; she organized a rally of 5,000 women that marched on President Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration in 1913. The women demand a federal constitution amendment that gave women the right to vote, this rally held its ground for six months. In 1920, just after the end of WWI, congress passed the Nineteenth Amendment that gave women the right to vote. The...
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...According to my research President Wilson went to Capitol Hill to address the senate With his speech about “peace without victory” although his speech brought about the Fourteen Points Treaty on January 8,1918. The republican senate was against him immediately. He did not care . I believe that the President was trying to make peace with the American people as well as around the world.Wilson was convinced of his cause that he decided to that he himself would go to the peace conference. Although the Fourteen Point Treaty reassured that the America and it’s Allied that they Where fighting for more than imperialist. America wanted peace and the Allies did as well. On January 18, 1919 the peace conference began at the Palace of Versailles. Although the Fourteen Points as known as the Versailles Treaty became one-sided. President Wilson still insisted that liberal terms against the French and the British. The conference went on for months. The allies insisted on getting compensation and security for all of the damages and the loss of land during the Great War with Germany. Even though their were many rules for Germany, They signed the treaty on June 28,1919. According to our text book many of the Americans favored the treaty. President Wilson personally handed the treaty to the senate. Even though the senate house was divided into two different groups with many different ideas on how President Wilson handle the situation. The...
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...S. response? 5.Describe the next 2 sinkings and the U.S. response. 6. Describe the Sussex Pledge. 7. Eventhough we were neutral, how was the U.S. really favoring the Allies? 8. Which ethnic groups in the U.S. favored the Central Powers and WHY? 9. How did the British make sure that America had a negative view of the Germans? 10. Discuss the U.S. lack of preparedness. Which groups and persons thought we should prepare just in case we were drawn into war? 11. What was President Wilson's stance on preparedness? 12. What groups and areas of the country were vehemently against preparedness and why? 13. Describe the election of 1916 and tell why Wilson won. 14. What were Wilson's last peace efforts to keep us out of war? 15. What are 3 major reasons why, eventhough he wanted peace, Wilson had to ask Congress for a declaration of war in April, 1817? 16. What was Wilson's slogan in his war declaration request? 17. Describe the War Industries Board and its leader Bernard Baruch. 18. What was Herbert Hoover's role in preparing for war? 19. What actions did the Fuel Administration under Harry GArfield take? 20. How did labor fair during the war? Who arbitrated disputes between labor and employers? 21. Who was George Creel and what was the job of the CPI? 22. What actions were promoted by the Hate the Huns campaign of the American Protective League? 23. Describe the Espionage Act of 1917. 24. Describe the Sedition Act. 25. Describe...
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...Kimyen Soto Assignment 2 June 12, 2012 Practical or Impossible? Woodrow Wilson's ideas about administration to some may have seemed practical but to others it seemed impossible. I believe his ideas about administration were very practical and workable if people decided to try and look at it in his point of view. Some of the distinctions he believes in which wasn't very clearly stated by him. There are advantages and disadvantages in using such a dichotomy today as a way to advance that field of study as well. Wilson's idea of being able to take pieces of other countries policies and break them down to what the United States can use within their administration is a great way to see what has worked and what hasn't in other countries. By looking into the other countries administration structures and studying how the countries have dealt with those rules and policies, you can see what may benefit our country to the best of its abilities. There are so many different countries out there with different views of administration and to take a piece out of different countries and make our own out of them would definitely work in my opinion. Especially since the United States is the melting pot of the world, what better way to make the administration side have a piece of different parts of the world to make our dichotomy work for us. Some people see this country as a place where they have freedoms to do and say whatever they want to do. Most other countries have rules against...
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...increased militarism, imperialism, and a willingness among the population to allow their governments to persecute a war (Grayzel 9-10). Ironically, it was a complicated series of competitive alliances and international peace agreements that caused such a rapid global escalation of hostilities (Grayzel 5). With its vast immigrant population, and their own ties to European and Asian interests, America was not immune to finding itself dragged into the war. Hence, during the first years of the war, President Woodrow Wilson struggled to maintain neutrality. So much so that he issued a declaration of neutrality to Congress on August 14, 1914. In his speech he entreated Americans to remember, “Every man who really loves America will act and speak in the true spirit of neutrality …” (Woodrow par. 2) With even more conviction he strongly suggested that “[t]he United States must be neutral in fact, as well as in name [emphasis added], during these days that are to try men's souls” (Woodrow par. 6). However, after the bombing of the Lusitania in 1915, and the sending of the Zimmerman telegram...
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...economy and controlled not only the prices, but the market share for their products. In response, the Sherman Anti-trust Act was passed around 1890 to limit the control. The Sherman Act however, did not cover everything that businesses needed it to cover. In 1914, Woodrow Wilson instructed Congress to pass a new set of antitrust laws called the Clayton Act. (Swenson, 2) The Sherman Act was first passed to ensure that no company “shall monopolize, attempt to monopolize or conspire with another to monopolize interstate or foreign trade or commerce, regardless of the type of business entity” (Abernathy, 4). If a company did violate this act they could face up to three years in jail and up to $350,000 per violation and corporations could be fined up to $10 million per violation (6). Although the Sherman Act provided much advancement in fighting monopolies, there needed to be another act that more specifically and clearly prohibited certain anti-competitive practices. Since the Sherman act needed more clarification, the Clayton Act of 1914 was soon drafted by Henry De Lamar Clayton Jr. Clayton along with many other people though the Sherman Act needed to be strengthened and clarified to work better. When Woodrow Wilson became president he instructed Congress to pass this act. He along with many others thought that the Clayton act “addresses specific practices that the Sherman Act does not clearly prohibit, such as mergers and interlocking directorates” (Scarlatti, 1). The Clayton...
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...Full name: Le Mai Huong Class: A1 The plot development of my favourite movie: 2012 The movie starts by a scene in 2009, Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team, visits astrophysicist Dr. Satnam in India. Dr. Satnam warns that neutrinos and radiation from a solar storm are causing the temperature of the Earth's core to increase rapidly. Adrian Helmsley informs Carl Anheuser and United States President Thomas Wilson that this will start natural disasters and it’s necessary to prepare for saving a fraction of world’s population. In 2010, Wilson, along with other international leaders, begins a massive, secret project intended to ensure humanity's survival. The world’s leaders decide to build ships called “arks” to escape the cataclysm. Approximately 400,000 people are chosen to board ships that are constructed at Cho Ming valley, China. Additional funding for the project is raised by selling tickets to the private sector for €1 billion per person. By 2011, they start secretly moving humanity's valuable treasures to the Himalayas. In 2012, Jackson Curtis is a science fiction writer in Los Angeles who works part-time as a limousine driver for Russian billionaire Yuri Karpov. Jackson's ex-wife Kate and their children Noah and Lily live with Kate's boyfriend, Gordon, a plastic surgeon. Jackson takes Noah and Lily camping in Yellowstone National Park, where they meet Charlie, who hosts a radio show from the park. Charlie references a theory that suggests...
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...World War I Hanse Bidon HIS/125 November 16, 2014 Tabitha Oteino World War I After announcing that the United States would remain neutrality at the beginning of WWI, however it would be the actions of Germany that would cause President Wilson to ask congress for a declaration of war and on April 2, 1917, asking congress to send in troops to battle Germany. President Wilson, while addressing congress, stated that” lamented it is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful person into war." Four days later congress would honor President Wilson’s request. In February and March of 1917, Germany was at war with Britain, France and Russia. Germany would increase submarine attacks on freight and merchant ships entering the Atlantic Ocean Killing innocent men and women, which included Americans. The German U-boats set upon around England preventing any supplies from entering in. Also, they would allow ships to disembark and then fire on them. Which was the case in the Lusitania the Germans fired on and sunk the ship, which contained over one hundred Americans on board. In addition, January 1917, Great Britain intercepted a telegram and decided it. The telegram was from Germany’s foreign Minster Arthur Zimmerman to the German Minster to Mexico Von Eckhardt and released it to the U.S. newspaper instead of giving it to the U.S. government. In this telegram, Germany is offering to help Mexico regain Texas and Arizona territory if they would become allies in WWI...
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...By WOODROW WILSON THE NEW FREEDOM A CALL FOR THE EMANCIPATION OF THE GENEROUS ENERGIES OF A PEOPLE WOODROW WILSON, DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY, 1913 Extract from: Chapter VIII MONOPOLY, OR OPPORTUNITY? There is another matter to which we must direct our attention… I do not talk about [the Money Trust] because I want to attack anybody or upset anything; I talk about [it] because only by open speech … shall we learn what the facts are. You will notice from a recent investigation (Aldrich) that things like this take place: A certain bank invests in certain securities. It appears from evidence that the handling of these securities was very intimately connected with the maintenance of the price of a particular commodity. Nobody ought, and in normal circumstances nobody would, for a moment think of suspecting the managers of a great bank of making such an investment in order to help those who were conducting a particular business in the United States maintain the price of their commodity; but the circumstances are not normal. It is beginning to be believed that in the big business of this country nothing is disconnected from anything else… take any investment of an industrial character by a great bank. It is known that the directorate of that bank interlaces in personnel with ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty boards of directors of all sorts, of railroads which handle commodities, of great groups of manufacturers which manufacture commodities, and of great merchants who...
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...One Man’s Petition and the Red Scare In 1919, Paris held a peace conference following the end of World War One. During this peace conference an abundance of individuals and groups came from European and Japanese groups petitioned to have independence or to be put on a path in the direction of self-determination. In the middle of all this, a petitioner by the name of Ho Chi Minh, the North Vietnamese leader was there. Ho Chi Minh presented an appeal to the Secretary of State Robert Lansing. He hoped that the United States would burden France to free Vietnam. The Vietnamese struggle for liberation was very hard, long and there were many aspects that played into it like the anti-war movement. Ho Chi Minh thought that this appeal would give rights to the Vietnamese people. With this appeal, he wanted America’s assistances to end the French rule which would have helped with freeing the Vietnamese. America turned down Ho Chi Minh offer and was turned down another time when he ask Russia for help with the Vietnamese. Ho Chi Minh may have brought no reaction from the Peacemakers but he was a hero to many politically Vietnamese. The Palmer Raids were a series of raids in the late 1919’s and early 1920’s by the United States Department of Justice envisioned to capture, imprison and deport far-reaching leftists. The raids and arrests happened in November 1919 and January 1920 under leadership of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer. Mitchell Palmer was trying to protect the community...
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