Answer:
He favored a policy of neutrality
Explanation:
The Wilson Presidency was marked by the outbreak of World War I. The US declared neutrality and the public was divided over the war. For the most part, they wanted to maintain neutrality; a slightly smaller part, appalled by the German extermination of Belgium's neutrality, wanted the United States to join the Entente; Irish and German immigrants and their descendants in turn, wanted the United States to go to war on the side of the Central Powers.
Wilson, however, maintained neutrality, although the war and national security issue served as an excuse for the occupation of Haiti, the purchase of the Virgin Islands from Denmark, and military intervention in Mexico and Nicaragua. At the same time, Wilson declined calls to prepare the US military more seriously for the conflict, saying that the preparations themselves could provoke unnecessary war.
On the other hand, antipathy toward Germany grew in the American public, partly because of the unrestricted submarine war, and the sinking of the passenger ship Lusitania, where a large number of American citizens were killed. This is what Republicans and their candidate Charles Evans Hughes sought to exploit in the 1916 presidential election. However, Wilson had previously managed to get the Germans to end an indefinite submarine war and thus secure a close election victory.
Early next year, Germany re-declared the unrestricted submarine war, and the Zimmerman telegram soon appeared in the US press in which Germany offered Mexico an alliance and reclaimed territories lost in the Mexican-American war as a reward for declaring the US war. In the face of the open hostility of Germany, Wilson was brought to an end and In 1917 he demanded the declaration of war to the Central Powers.
