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President Woodrow Wilson addressed Congress 100 years ago today
Posted on 4/2/17 at 6:43 pm
Posted on 4/2/17 at 6:43 pm
And asked them to declare war on Germany. The vote, which took place four days later, brought the United States into World War I.
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Posted on 4/2/17 at 6:44 pm to RollTide1987
A forgotten time when Presidents didn't unilaterally declare war.
Posted on 4/2/17 at 6:46 pm to RollTide1987
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And asked them to declare war on Germany
Six months after he won election on the slogan "He kept us out of war".
Posted on 4/2/17 at 6:46 pm to RollTide1987
Wilson may have the been the worst President ever.
Posted on 4/2/17 at 6:47 pm to RollTide1987
A lot of posters wanted to fist fight him.
Posted on 4/2/17 at 6:48 pm to RollTide1987
I've often wondered what would have happened had the US actually been neutral from the start of WWI. Yeah, we claimed we were "neutral" from 1914-early 1917. But everyone knows that we were anything but neutral.
Posted on 4/2/17 at 6:50 pm to Darth_Vader
wilson was more liberal than obama would ever be yet people love him.
Posted on 4/2/17 at 6:52 pm to Darth_Vader
We actually started out very neutral. We attempted to continue trading with Germany after the outbreak of war but the Royal Navy's blockade of German ports kept us from doing that. As Britain was our largest trading partner before the war, it made sense to continue that commerce during the conflict. By the end of 1915, however, the American public began to grow very bitter toward Germany and their practice of Unrestricted Submarine Warfare - especially after the sinking of the Lusitania.
Posted on 4/2/17 at 6:52 pm to Darth_Vader
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I've often wondered what would have happened had the US actually been neutral from the start of WWI.
The better question is if we didn't bitch out on finishing Germany during WWI.
Would have saved a lot of lives in the 40s and changed the face of "modern" war
Posted on 4/2/17 at 6:52 pm to SCLibertarian
quote:Tell that to Teddy.
A forgotten time when Presidents didn't unilaterally declare war.
Posted on 4/2/17 at 6:53 pm to vengeanceofrain
Liberal as in progressive but probably among the most racist.
Posted on 4/2/17 at 6:54 pm to RollTide1987
Hell yeah! And a couple months later we were nuking Dresden, frick a kraut.
Posted on 4/2/17 at 6:55 pm to fightin tigers
quote:um world world 2 started specifically because of the treaty of versailles. we destroyed germany. it was too harsh. IF it wasn't so harsh, if it didn't make germany give up the rhineland hitler never has the political capital for the movement to get off the ground
The better question is if we didn't bitch out on finishing Germany during WWI.
Posted on 4/2/17 at 6:56 pm to vengeanceofrain
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IF it wasn't so harsh, if it didn't make germany give up the rhineland hitler never has the political capital for the movement to get off the ground
Ah yes, the Paris treaty was much more generous....said no one ever.
We fricking occupied Germany after WW2, something we should have done after WW1
Who represented Germany in Paris?
This post was edited on 4/2/17 at 7:00 pm
Posted on 4/2/17 at 6:56 pm to RollTide1987
The world may well have been better if Germany had pushed through to France and captured Paris in the very beginning of the war.
Generations of men are spared, the Nazis don't come to power, and perhaps the Bolsheviks don't take over Russia.
Generations of men are spared, the Nazis don't come to power, and perhaps the Bolsheviks don't take over Russia.
Posted on 4/2/17 at 6:59 pm to vengeanceofrain
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IF it wasn't so harsh, if it didn't make germany give up the rhineland hitler never has the political capital for the movement to get off the ground
If my aunt had a penis she'd be my uncle.
Posted on 4/2/17 at 7:00 pm to fightin tigers
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Who represented Germany in Paris?
No one. The Germans weren't even allowed to come to Paris until the treaty was ready to sign.
Posted on 4/2/17 at 7:00 pm to fightin tigers
quote:hummn, i don't know. in one war Germany killed 6 million jews and hundreds of thousands of people they deemed undesirables. maybe had something to do with it. Germany didn't even have an army after WW1 what would have been the point in occupying them
We fricking occupied Germany after WW2, something we should have done after WW1
Posted on 4/2/17 at 7:01 pm to RollTide1987
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No one. The Germans weren't even allowed to come to Paris until the treaty was ready to sign.
Exactly! Do that after WW1 and Hitler is a pissed off hipster writing street poetry instead of leading the masses
Posted on 4/2/17 at 7:02 pm to vengeanceofrain
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Germany didn't even have an army after WW1 what would have been the point in occupying them
To keep WW2 from happening.
All I can think is that we learned from our mistake
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