1). He developed a program of progressive reform and asserted international leadership in building a new world order. In 1917 he proclaimed American's entrance into World War I a crusade to make the world "safe for democracy." Wilson had seen the difficulties of war. He was born in

Virginia in 1856. The son of a Presbyterian minister who during the Civil War was a pastor in Augusta, Georgia, and during Reconstruction a professor in the charred city of Columbia, South Carolina. After graduation from Princeton (then the College of New Jersey) and the University of Virginia Law School, Wilson earned his doctorate at Johns Hopkins University and entered upon an academic career. In 1885 he married Ellen Louise Axson. Wilson advanced rapidly as a conservative young professor of political science and became president of

Princeton in 1902. His growing national reputation led some conservative

Democrats to consider him Presidential material. First they persuaded him to run for Governor of New Je

United States. Wilson, ever the mummer of Mars, used Villa's raids into the

rsey in 1910. In that campaign he asserted his independence of the conservatives and of the machine that had nominated him, endorsing a progressive platform, which he pursued as governor. He was nominated for President at the 1912 Democratic Convention and campaigned on a program called the New Freedom, which stressed individualism and states' rights. In the three-way election he received only 42 percent of the popular vote but an overwhelming electoral vote. Wilson dealt with Congress very effectively in his presidency. On April 2,1917, he asked Congress for a declaration of war on

Dartiguenave president. Next, Wilson tired to force his puppets to sign a treaty that would essentially cede Haitian sovereignty to the United States. But the puppets would not submit, so Wilson declared martial law and made Admiral

Wilson also had the marines occupy and subdue large part of Nicaragua at that government's request. President Woodrow Wilson has been marked for his great issue of foreign poilicy. Latin America was effected greatly by all the policies that were promoted by President Wilson. Although some of his ideas were denied, such as the League of Nations, his effort to unite the nations has made a big impact on American and Latin American history. Woodrow Wilson is the president with the greatest intervention in Latin America.

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