15. In a speech to Congress in April of 1917, President Woodrow Wilson explained his decision to abandon neutrality in World War I on the grounds that
A. The human rights abuses carried out by the German government must be punished.
B. The United States was on the brink of a depression and war would revitalize the economy.
C. Only by entering the war would the United States be able to make the world safe for democracy.
D. The United States must enter the war in order to protect its overseas territories from German
aggression.