Read an excerpt from President Wilson’s speech asking Congress to declare war on Germany. It is a fearful thing to lead this gre
at peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for things which we have always carried nearest to our hearts—for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own Governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free. What is the main reason the United States entered the war, according to Wilson
In this excerpt, Wilson argues that the main reason why the United States decided to enter the war was because the country was committed to the protection of democratic ideals. Among these ideals, Wilson cites the right of people to participate in government, the protection of the rights of small nations, and the protection of individual freedom.
