First World War of 1914-1918

In 1916, the submarine war, one of whose consequences was the United States’ invasion, was marked by a war in the North Sea between the German and British fleets known as Gatland. The Germans also tried to sink any commercial ship to starve Britain and force it to surrender. Among the ships that were sinking were a number of American ships, prompting the United States to enter the war alongside the Reconciliation States in April 1917, making the war universal. Before the war, the United States embraced the Monroe Doctrine, which was based on America’s neutrality in its foreign policy on Europe, and not allowing any European country to interfere in American affairs, but American leaders saw it in their country’s interest to benefit from the war by entering it.

Woodrow Wilson led America during the First World War of 1914-1918, an advocate of democracy and peace in the world and he tried to keep the United States neutral during World War I.

However Woodrow eventually called Congress to declare war on Germany in 1917. After the war, he helped negotiate a peace treaty that included the plan of the League of Nations. Although the Senate rejected US membership at the university, Wilson awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for peacemaking efforts. When World War I broke out in Europe in the summer of 1914, Wilson was determined to keep the United States out of this conflict. In 1915, a German submarine was blown up and the British passenger ship Lusitania was sunk, killing more than 1,100 people, including 128 Of Americans, “Wilson continued to maintain US neutrality, but warned Germany that any future drowning would be seen by America as” unfriendly.

In addition, Woodrow Wilson made significant constitutional amendments, marking the beginning of the Prohibition Era on 1920, when the 18th Amendment, banning the manufacture, sale and transfer of alcoholic beverages, came into effect after ratifying it one year earlier. In 1919, Wilson objected to the National Prohibition Act, or “The Volusted Act,” which aimed to impose the 18th Amendment. However, his objection was overtaken by Congress, and the ban continued until 1933, when it was repealed by the 21st Amendment.

Also in 1920, American women gained the right to vote when the 19 th Amendment of the August Act was passed. Wilson pushed Congress to pass the amendment, resulting in a first-time presidential vote that allowed women from every state to vote and Republican Warren Harding, 1865-1923, “a congressman from Ohio who opposed the League of Nations and campaign for a” return to normalcy “after Wilson’s time in the White House.

Finally, unfortunately Wilson did not achieve his broad hopes for peace in his lifetime. Although he received, music during the peace negotiations in Versailles, outside Paris, his request to establish a League of Nations to regulate world crises was met with skepticism, especially from his country. The League of Nations was created, but America did not join it. Only after the outbreak of a second world war was America formed as a founding member of the United Nations.

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