President Wilson addressed Congress to announce that diplomatic relations with Germany were severed. In a Special Session of Congress held on 2 April 1917, President Wilson delivered this ‘War Message.’ Four days later, Congress overwhelmingly passed the...
In his speech to Congress, President Wilson declared fourteen points which he regarded as the only possible basis of an enduring peace. They were according to him: I. Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after which there shall be no private international...