Trivia: Who was the U.S. President during World War I?
Warren G. Harding
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
William Howard Taft
Correct Answer: Woodrow Wilson
So why is this answer correct? : President Woodrow Wilson was first elected in 1912 and re-elected to a second term in 1916. Despite his re-election campaign slogan being “He Kept Us Out of War,” President Wilson declared war in April 1917 and entered the U.S. into the WWI global conflict.