Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States. He was born in Staunton, Virginia. Woodrow Wilson was one of America’s greatest presidents. He won the Peace Prize for 1919 as the leading architect behind the League of Nations. The organization facilitated greater security and cooperation among nations during the First World War.
Wilson became the President of the US in 1913. After the outbreak of war in 1914, it was Wilson’s policy to keep the United States out. In the early days of World War I, Wilson was determined to maintain neutrality. Germany’s unrestricted submarine offensive sank American ships, and in 1917, Wilson took the US into the war. His major failure was when the Senate declined to approve American acceptance of the League of Nations.
Nevertheless, the peace initiatives made by Woodrow Wilson won him the Nobel Peace Prize in the year 1919. Wilson, who had suffered a debilitating stroke in October 1919, could not attend the ceremony in Oslo.
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