Presented to America by the people of France in 1886, the Statue of Liberty sits on a 12-acre island in New York Harbor. Her crown has 25 windows and seven spikes.
American Neutrality. Since the beginning of World War I in 1914, the United States, under President Woodrow Wilson, had maintained strict neutrality, other than providing material assistance to the Allies.
The U.S. granted independence to the Philippines on July 4, 1946. Woodrow Wilson entered the presidency with his foreign affairs approach of Moral Diplomacy. He opposed imperialism, the big-stick policy of T Roosevelt, and the Dollar Diplomacy of Taft. Part of this meant righting past wrongs.