America’s Foreign Policy Post WWI and Its Results
Indisputably the United States failed to join the League of Nations, because the US senate refused to ratify the Treaty of Versailles. Despite Wilson’s extensive 1919-1920 campaign to achieve Senate approval for the treaty, he failed in part because he did not attain consensus among the Democratic and Republican parties. When peace negotiations began in October, 1918, President Wilson Woodrow played a significant role. The focal point of his arguments were based of his famous “Fourteen Points”, and he insisted those “points” needed to serve as a basis for the signing of the armistice. This of course, included the formation of the League of Nations. Wilson's desire to create a League of Nations that would form a general association of nations arose from his belief that America could force compliance with such league. Wilson's idealistic visions of a pacifistic society of nation-states existed only under the......
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