Explore Woodrow Wilson’s policy of neutrality in the years before the United States entered World War I, through primary sources and videos excerpted from The Great War | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE. Despite Wilson’s proposed policy of “impartiality and fairness and friendliness,” intended to protect the nation against involvement in the war, the economic realities of profitable business arrangements with the Allies and the news coming solely from Great Britain helped tilt the United States toward support of the Allies.