ABSTRACT
Foreign historians have tended to accept his analysis wholesale, perhaps because it fit their "image of German history, determined largely by the experience of Hitler's Germany and the Second World War." An American reference work on World War I, for example, stated outright that "kaiser and Foreign Office. Yet, as soon as he became President, prior to guiding the country into World War I, his actions in Latin America were anything but pacific. With the onset of war in Europe, hostilities began in the North Atlantic which eventually provided the context-or rather pretext-for America's participation. Our purpose in going to war was Wilson was answered in the House by the Democratic leader Claude Kitchin, and in the Senate by Robert LaFollette, but to no avail. The changes wrought in America during World War I were so profound that one scholar has referred to "the Wilsonian Revolution in government.".
