2.22 Wilson's Foreign Policy

Due today: Ch. 22 Notes (5 pt quick check CA)

Brief Lecture on WWI Background

Why was Wilson so reticent to enter WWI when recent American foreign policy had been so imperialistic?

Document analysis:

• President Woodrow Wilson's Speech before Congress, August 19, 1914
• President Woodrow Wilson's Speech before Congress, April 2, 1917
• Excerpt from Howard Zinn's A Peoples History, 1980
• Miller Center at the University of Virginia - Woodrow Wilson's Foreign Affairs

Wilson's Foreign Policy in WWI Wilson's Foreign policy in the Western Hemisphere

So...Why was Wilson so reticent to enter WWI when recent American foreign policy had been so imperialistic?

HW: Finish Ch. 22 MC and SA