What we did not learn about Wilson is as remarkable as what we did not learn about this president. We learned, and I teach today, that some say Wilson led our country into World War 1 and after the war led a national struggle to create the League of nation. We learned that Wilson would be associated with the suffrage movement. However, history lesson fail to mention two antidemocratic policies that Wilson failed to carry out: his racial segregation of the federal government and his military intervention in foreign countries. The United States intervened in Latin America more that anytime in our history. We landed more troops in Mexico in 1914, Haiti in 1915, and the Dominican in 1916. Wilson would maintina forces in Nicaragua, using them to determine its president and to press passage of a treaty preferential to the United States. Get this. Russian textbooks give great detail to Wilson (in 1917) giving monetary aid to “White” side of the Russian civil war. After a short hold on front lines as far west as Volga, the White Russian forces broken by the end of 1919, our troops would leave Vladivostok on April 1, 1920. Some historian accept the idea that Wilson’s interventions in Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Nicaragua, would set the historical stage for dictators of Batista, Trujillo, the Duvaliers, and the Somozas. What we did not learn about Wilson is as remarkable as what we did learn about Wilson. Critical Thinking Question. Why, do you suppose that over half of our textbooks fail to mention Wilson’s takeover of Haiti? U.S. Marines invaded Haiti in 1915 and forced their legislature to select our preferred president. Why?
Why do most textbooks only have a few sentences about Wilson’s racism? We shall cover this in Wilson, Part 3
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Can you give me a link to the 1st part of the series, Wilson IMHO opinion( he was definitely the most racist prez ever) was almost satanic. He brought socialism to America and chaos to world politics contributing to the rise of communism, hitler, and radical Islam. Worst president ever.
If we had sided with the Kaiser( and the Krauts were not the bad guys in WWI by any measure) or merely stayed out and allowed a Prussian victory none of the above would be a problem( and France would be eliminated as an independent country too).
Ping to some fellow supporters of the Central Powers.