War does not always have the simple goal of killing as many of the enemy as you can. The motives behind war are often complex and not always vicious attempts to gain power. Often times a nation must enter a war to secure peace in the future. This was the case when Woodrow Wilson asked Congress for a declaration of war. Since the early days of the war when Wilson asked the nation to be …
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…He avoided war as much as he could but when he had could no longer put it off he involved the United States for all the right reasons. He worked for peace before the war by trying to stay neutral, he worked for peace during the war by trying to end it quickly, and he worked for peace after the war by trying to ensure that an atrocity of this magnitude would never occur again.