Peloponnesian War. Athens and Sparta, both powerful Greek city-states, had fought as allies in the Greco-Persian Wars between 499 and 449 B.C. ... Neither city-state regained the military strength they once had.
In "Wilson's War Message to Congress", he compares the German government to governments of the past. What he is hoping to convey is <em>the comparison attempts to make the German government look uncivilized and brutal</em>. In early 1917, diplomatic relations with Germany were getting worse. On April 1917, Wilson delivered this message to Congress. Four days later Congress decided that the U.S. should enter the war.
