Woodrow Wilson /1856-1924/ When the countries of Europe plunged into war in 1914, W. Wilson asked all Americans to „act and speak in the true spirit of neutrality.“ Wilson managed to maintain U.S. neutrality for the next 30 months and, running on the slogan „He kept us out of war“, won reelection as president in 1916. On April 2, 1917, he appeared before a joint session of Congress to ask for a declaration of war agains Germany. Wilson´s address, tried to answer 2 major questions: 1/ W...