League of What?
Woodrow Wilson won national, perhaps even international praise for his brief but successfully involvement in World War I. Before the end of the war, President Wilson presented his "Fourteen Points". Although the overall agreement of the Allied and Associated Powers was that Germany was to accept responsibility as the cause of the war, Wilson believed that if the Germans were punished too harshly, a future war would be inevitable. His proposition of the creation of a League of Nations was intended to insure protection against an aggressor such as Germany in the future: one Nation supporting the other. As a result of the Treaty, Germany lost its Imperialistic powers in Africa, 10% of its national territory, a majority of its iron and steel, had its army reduced to a mere 100,000 troops, weapon import/export prohibited, and various items of warfare disallowed. Wilson presented his "Fourteen Points" to the Allies but his fourteenth point, the establishment of a......
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