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David_Pritchard:
Now that I have thought more about this subject, It is quite possible that a President Taft in office during the Revolution might have acted more sympathetically to the cause of the Whites as his father Alphonso Taft had been the United States Minister to Russia in the years 1885-1886.

Interestingly, both of the challengers to President Wilson had ties to Imperial Russia. I wonder how a Republican victory might have effected the way that US troops were deployed and utilised in Archangel and Vladivostock?

David

Finelly:
Like David Pritchard, I have always viewed Wilson as an idealist, and pretty detached from the reality of international politics.  Sort of the Jimmy Carter of his time, but less so.

It occurs to me that Wilson's true belief that all could be worked out through negotiations and collegiality may have prevented him from understanding the true danger that the Romanovs faced.  For Wilson, educated as he was, little could not be solved simply by coming together and talking things through, that talk being based on a shared philosophy and ideology that he believed that all politicians, deep down, shared, if only they had the opportunity to meet one another.

He did make attempts, or his government did, to intervene in Russia, but there does not appear to have been a full-fledged policy that had any chance of success.   He simply did not understand Communism, or any concept of revolution other than the American revolution, which was relatively bloodless compared to the situation in Russia.  

Angwen:
Sorry if I offended anyone,but I when I join forums I try to post topics on things I know about.

What I do know is that my education on WWI focused mostly on Wilson and his rivraly with the Republicans.I'm a high schooler this fall.

I know that he was President during the time of the Romanovs.
Most versions of Wilson that I heard was that he had great ideas and that if they had been used,especially the U.S being in the League of Nations WWII may have been avoided.

As for Republicans...Do you realize that they were Isolationists?Do you know that they voted against joining the League of Nations?

If this is the wrong place to talk about this sort of thing,then point to a place that those because I haven't found one yet.(I'm not saying this to be mean...but I haven't found any 'President Forums'.)

TampaBay:
Angwen,

You talk about anything you want!  If the Forum Moderators think we are getting off topic they will let us know.  (This is the Moderators job and no one else's)  Until that moment we can talk about what we want to talk about pertaining to topic.

Like you, I am very interested in the interaction of USA, Russain Revolution and the UK during WWI.

I do not understand why our country (USA) did not do more to help the whites and the Tsar.  If you have more info please posts.

President and First Lady Wilson had some very interesting dealings with Queen Marie of Romania at the Paris Peace Conference.  Marie was a Granddaughter of a Tsar Alexander II (I apopolgize if you already kenw this).  It is very good reading.

We need more young people like you posting and sharing information from your classes at school.

TampaBay

Angwen:
Information on Mr.Wilson, curtesy of Who's Buried in Grant's Tomb?by Brian Lamb.

He's the only President with a Ph.D(politcal science)
Woodrow Wilson earned the Noble Peace Prize for his role in ending WWII and creating the League of Nations.
Three Amendments were passed in his tenure.
17.Direct elect of Senators(more votes)
18.Alchohal Prohibition(well...at least they weren't drunk when they vote ;D)
19.Women's Vote(more votes)

He was a proffesor at Princeton.He was Governor of New Jersey for 2 years before being chosen as the Democratic candidate for president.Although he was a great oratator,I think he won because the ballot was split.

His wife died in 1914. He was depressed until he married Edith the next year.

I don't know why he didn't help with the war in Russia.I know that the main reason his health declined was overwork.
Personally, I think it was the Republicans fault.They let there politics get in the way of interefering when needed.

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