Wilson Presidency (mar 4, 1913 – mar 4, 1921)
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Thomas Woodrow Wilson, born in Staunton, Virginia on December 28, 1856 and died in Washington, DC on February 3, 1924, is the twenty-eighth president of the United States. He is elected for two consecutive terms from 1913 to 1921.His presidency marks a major turning point in American diplomacy, ending almost a century of isolationism and opening up to an interventionist policy that is still ongoing a century later. He launches the idea of a body of international cooperation, the League of Nations, which the United States will never integrate. The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in 1919.
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mar 4, 1913
mar 4, 1921
~ 8 years