First World War, also known as the Great War began on July 1914 until November 1918, and it was divided into two powers, the Allies and the Axis. United States of America under the presidency …show more content…
After almost 3 years of the beginning of the war, at the end of the 1916 the war took the lives of many soldiers and belligerent parties who seemed like not bringing it to an end, so Wilson took its position and claimed that was the duty of U.S. country to prevent this war. After the spread of news that U.S. was going to participate into the war, Germany quickly responded with the threat of submarine warfare. After Wilson took this message he broke the diplomatic relations with Berlin, so now his purpose was war. On second April, 1917, President Wilson asked the Congress to declare war in Germany because according to him, Germans were “warfare against mankind.” Now Wilson used to think that to promote establishment of peace into the world, they firstly had to become combatants, therefore, at the peace conference he thought of outlawing of revolution and aggression, advocating democracy and the Open Door. He hoped to preserve part of his country’s status as a neutral by designating the U.S. an “Associated” power. In 1917, in order to spread the administration’s campaign into the world, Wilson formed the Committee on Public Information (CPI) headed by George Creel. This propaganda agency took some of the most talented scholars and writers in order to uniform the public opinion and it stimulates