Woodrow Wilson's SHOCKING Life Story in 60 Seconds

Added: 2026-05-19

[00:00:00]Woodrow Wilson's life story explained in 1 minute. Woodrow Wilson was born in 1856 in Virginia and became a college professor and later president of Princeton University. He surprised everyone by becoming governor of New Jersey in 1910 fighting corruption and big business. In 1912 he won the presidency when the Republican Party split in two. Wilson desperately tried to keep America out of World War I even [music] as German submarines sank American ships. Everything changed with the Zimmerman telegram in 1917 where Germany secretly asked Mexico to attack America. Wilson asked Congress for war saying the world must be made [music] safe for democracy. After winning the war Wilson created his famous 14 points [music] plan for world peace and founded the League of Nations. He traveled across America campaigning for his [music] peace treaty but collapsed from a stroke. The tragic irony, America rejected Wilson's [music] League of Nations which many believed could have prevented World War II. Wilson's vision of international cooperation was ahead of its time but later proved right when the United Nations was created.