As president, he oversaw the passage of progressive legislative policies unparalleled until the New Deal in 1933. He also led the United States into World War I in 1917, establishing an activist foreign policy known as 'Wilsonianism.' He was the leading architect of the League of Nations. Thomas Woodrow Wilson was born to a Scots-Irish family in Staunton, Virginia, on December 28, 1856. He was the leading architect of the League of Nations. Thomas Woodrow Wilson was born to a Scots-Irish family in Staunton, Virginia, on December 28, 1856. The Cabinet members believed that Germany was engaged in a commercial war against the United States, and that the United States had to respond with a formal declaration of war.On April 2, 1917, Wilson asked Congress for a declaration of war against Germany, arguing that Germany was engaged in 'nothing less than war against the government and people of the United States.'
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