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Person in History Woodrow Wilson Essay
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Subject:World Studies
Topic:World Affairs
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Present day international affairs are done to a level much greater than Wilson wanted them to, making it especially intriguing for him to examine them and to cooperate with a professional team in looking over the world's problems and finding solutions to them. Although Wilson supported the concept of intervening in the affairs of other countries when democracy seemed to be threatened in these territories, he also supported the theory of self-governing, insisting that each country should be allowed to govern itself as it wishes, with international intervention being limited to preserving freedom, instead of forcing people to act against their will.
Woodrow Wilson's plans to see an international committee preserving peace failed to the highest degree during the years in which the League of Nations functioned. Not only did the organization fail in preserving peace, but in some cases it actually expressed indifference to conditions involving an oppressing country and one being oppressed. Woodrow Wilson's plans may not have materialized in the League of Nations, but his efforts brought great benefits to mankind later on. The influence of his principles was felt many years after his death, as it is even felt in the present. Woodrow Wilson managed to open the eyes of the international public, showing it that the majority of people from around the world had been oppressed and that something needed to be done in order to stop this. Not only did Wilson's intervention save millions of people at the time of the First World War, but it continued to save people to this day (and it is very probable to save lives in the future). "More lives have been saved by the League than were lost in World War I and so far in World War II," says SurgeonCommander Best, chief of Canada's wartime medical staff "(Cranston 445). Wilson shaped the New World's foreign policy and made the Old World less reluctant to adopt innovative policies, particularly when these strategies involved freedom and rights for all.
It would be a great privilege to see a man whose plans were to save the world witnessing an organization whose establishing he indirectly supported in its most complete stage, the United Nations Organization. It is very unfortunate that Woodrow Wilson did not live to see dream take form and eventually reach its present day status, which contains a great deal of ideas promoted by none other than the 28th American President.
Works cited:
1. Cranston, Ruth, The Story of Woodrow Wilson: Twenty-Eighth President of the United States, Pioneer of World Democracy (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1945).
2. Hoover, Herbert, The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson, 1st ed.…
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Works cited:
1. Cranston, Ruth, The Story of Woodrow Wilson: Twenty-Eighth President of the United States, Pioneer of World Democracy (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1945).
2. Hoover, Herbert, The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson, 1st ed. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1958)
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