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make it new!: early modernism \wilsons war message to congress\ april 2, 1917 gentlemen of the congress i have called the congress into extraordinary session because there are serious, very serious, choices of policy to be made, and made immediately, which it was neither right nor constitutionally permissible that i should assume the responsibility of making. on the 3rd of february last i officially laid before you the extraordinary announcement of the imperial german government that on and after the 1st day of february it was its purpose to put aside all restraints of law or of humanity and use its submarines to sink every vessel that sought to approach either the ports of great britain and ireland or the western coasts of europe or any of the ports controlled by the enemies of germany within the mediterranean. it is a war against all nations. american ships have been sunk, american lives taken, in ways which it has stirred us very deeply to learn of, but the ships and people of other neutral and friendly nations have been sunk and overwhelmed in the waters in the same way. there has been no discrimination. the challenge is to all mankind. each nation must decide for itself how it will meet it. the choice we make for ourselves must be made with a moderation of counsel and a temperateness jcr - vocab - 1 of judgment befitting our character and our motives as a nation. we must put excited feeling away. our motive will not be revenge or the victorious assertion of the physical might of the nation, but only the vindication of right, of human right, of which. what is the purpose of president woodrow wilsons speech \war message to congress\? to explain an internal conflict among the people of the united states to compare the current war to other wars that were fought against germany to inform congress about the problems happening overseas to persuade congress that the nation should enter the war against germany

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En la "War Message to Congress", Wilson describe las acciones agresivas de Alemania, incluyendo el hundimiento de barcos estadounidenses y de otras naciones neutrales. Luego argumenta que Estados Unidos debe参战 para defender los derechos humanos y la justicia. El objetivo es convencer al Congreso de que el país debe entrar en la guerra contra Alemania.

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to persuade Congress that the nation should enter the war against Germany