A Southerner and a Democrat, Woodrow Wilson rode the Progressive Movement into the White House in 1912. For his second term campaign in 1916, he promised to keep the USA neutral and not to enter WWI.

December: Thomas Woodrow Wilson is born in Staunton, Virginia, the third of Jessie Janet Woodrow and Joseph Ruggles Wilson’s four children. August 22: At the Geneva Convention, 12 governments ...