CLEP US History II

Answer: D - When President Woodrow Wilson announced the United States’ entry into World War I, he said it was a war the country must undertake to “make the world safe for democracy,” which was an expression of American exceptionalism, the ideology that compelled America’s imperialist policies. Wilson previously withheld the nation from war on the grounds it had a moral superiority over the rest of the world due to its democratic government. Once Germany drew the United States into the war, Wilson reversed course, arguing that the nation should engage in the conflict to “promote” democracy around the world.