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On April 9, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson said “The world must be made safe for democracy” in asking the U.S. Congress for a Declaration of War against Germany, marking the entry of the U.S ...

January 12 1918. The world is at war. In Washington, the British ambassador to the United States, Sir Cecil Spring Rice, writes a letter to a former US secretary of state William Jennings Bryan ...