WorldSafeforDemocracy


 * Thesis**: The U.S entered WWI because it was our objective to bring the ultimate peace and justice to the world by ensuring that democracy will win.

The Zimmerman note was sent from an ambassador from Germany to Mexico saying that if Mexico supports Germany in the war, they are ensured to have Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona back. If this note was not passed onto us, the last standing Democracy would have been attacked.

Woodrow Wilson wanted to make the world safe for democracy, but Geman surrender threatened our Liberty. Wilson's wrote his speech on January 8th, 1918, he talked about acceptance, he also directly addressed the cause of World War I. Even before he wrote his speech he had "The Inquiry" which consisted of a group of 150 political and social scientist, they then studied the Allied and American policy.

Wilson's battle was only with the military masters of Germany. He still expressed friendship for the Germans because he wanted them to also be safe for Democracy.

Britain had a two-month food supply, Germans were fighting on the French border, and Germany had recently taken over rich grain-growing areas for a good supply of food. The Democratic countries were in trouble.

"and we shall fight for the thing which we have always carried nearest our hearts - for Democracy, for the right of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free." - Woodrow Wilson

Sources: "Making the World “Safe for Democracy”: Woodrow Wilson Asks for War." //History Matters//. American Social History Productions Inc., 1998. Web. 9 Dec. 2009. .  Bragdon, Henry W., Samuel P. McCutchen, and Donald A. Ritchie. //History of a Free Nation//. Colmbus, OH: Glencoe/Mcgraw-Hill, 1998. Print. President Wilson's Message to Congress, January 8, 1918; Records of the United States Senate; Record Group 46; Records of the United States Senate; National Archives.