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league of nations is also the project that got Wilson the nobel peace prize and is essentially the precursor to NATO. yes him, along with the other Western leaders, were responsible for WW2 afterwards. but he's also the president who dealt with the entirety of the first ever World War which was a much bigger deal conceptually as it had never happened before. i don't fault the WW1 leaders for lacking the foresight into WW2 and there were plenty of other points in history where people could have stopped Germany but didn't. makes no sense to blame one man for an entire war 20 years later.

probably his most long standing American accomplishment is making the federal reserve, aka, the creation of the central banking system in the US. people tried before, failed, he succeeded and it's still in place over a century later. and sure he may not have been the most progressive of the presidents (progressive for that time period that is) but he still did try to get rid of child labor even if it was still futile due to courts, still pushed for anti-trust, and still pushed to limit work hours and improve worker conditions. he just did all that with a world war throughout almost the entirety of his two terms looming on him before getting involved with it via combat instead of trade.