There were of course several people who held this view, but perhaps the most prominent was Woodrow Wilson, the President of the United States, who pushed for a much more secure Europe after WWI to prevent such things from happening again.
It was important because it was marked by extensive discoveries and inventions in Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Dialectic, Literature, Logic, Mathematics, Astronomy, Religion and Philosophy.
Yes because the white wanted the black to be their slaves
