who was president during world war i?

Woodrow Wilson was the president of the United States during World War I.

Who was president?

• The U.S. president during World War I (1914–1918) was Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president.

• He served from 1913 to 1921, which covers the entire World War I period.

Wilson and World War I

• The United States stayed neutral for the first years of the war, but German submarine attacks and the Zimmermann Telegram pushed Wilson to ask Congress for a declaration of war in April 1917.

• Wilson framed U.S. entry as a fight to “make the world safe for democracy” and later promoted his Fourteen Points and the League of Nations for postwar peace.

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