President Woodrow Wilson Addressing Congress

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Title: President Woodrow Wilson Addressing Congress
Creator(s): St. Louis Globe-Democrat
AP Newsfeatures Photo
Date: 1917
1964-08-12
Content Type: picture
Subject(s): Soldiers
War
World War, 1914-1918
Geographic Area: District of Columbia
Time Period: 1960-1969
Description: "Breaking Point/Isolationist at the start, the United States moved step by step to participation in World War I. President Woodrow Wilson, reluctant to abandon neutrality, here addresses Congress in Washington to advise the legislators of the break in diplomatic relations with Germany, in February, 1917. The break came after the Germans resumed unrestricted submarine warfare."
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Classification: World War I 1964021
Owner: St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri-St. Louis