American League

the end of the war, five years after the assassination of Franz Ferdinand which started the war. It said that the war was over between the Allied Powers and Germany. There were many conditions or regulations in the treaty such as Disarmament, the League of Nations, Reparations, Land redistribution, and the War guilt Clause. Disarmament is where a country…

In compiling a list of influential Americans, Woodrow Wilson would have to be one of the forerunners, because of his enormous contribution to American history. Wilson was the President of the United States throughout the entirety of the first World War, which proved to be quite influential worldwide. Since it seemed that the American people were getting tired of being in the war, Wilson chose to give a speech to Congress on January 8, 1918 in which he outlined his plan to end World War I.…

of the League of Nations. Prior to the United States entry to the first World War, Wilson believed that, “America had the infinite privilege of fulfilling her destiny and saving the world.” He supported this belief with the notion that only the United States would be able to lead the…

First and foremost, it could be argued that the United States entering World War I was a failure on his part. This is because for most of the war the American people had no desire to enter the war, as it was Europe’s problem. On the other hand, one could argue that the United States delaying entering the war was a failure on Wilson’s part. Could the war have had less disastrous effects had the United States…

system as scientists work with statisticians and bioinformatics to discover new ideas to be employed by various corporations and passed on to several customers who benefit from these enterprises. Furthermore, science and technology interact with the American social and political culture in order to influence individual needs or choices in a way that develops the power of several corporations. The political…

limiting the number of soldiers in their army, taking away heavy artillery and military and naval forces, restricting the navy, and demilitarizing the Rhineland. The treaty also took away German territory and forced Germany to accept the Covenant of the League of Nations even though it was excluded from the original membership. An article written by a British journalist in 1922 says that the peace was “sowed a thousand seeds from which new wars might spring.” The Treaty of Versailles forced…

Many Americans thought that isolationism west the best choice for the country at the time. They believed that America should worry about its problems and stay out of foreign issues. Support for isolationism came from many things, disillusionment with the League of Nations and its inability to stop Japanese aggression, thinking they were tricked by big business into entering World War I, and many Americans didn’t want to be involved because of the devastation from World War I and the Great…

that America is not the society everyone depicts. Let me begin the discussion by talking about World War II and America’s involvement and why it matters now, in 2016. America is a society based on fear, and it truly has always been. Before Americans decided to get involved in World War I, people believed that it was an European problem, and therefore,…

the modern weapons used in contemporary conflict, namely the Arab-Israeli conflict. Despite a lack of a long term peace agreement, the Camp David Accords are just one of many examples of an American diplomat (in this case former president Jimmy Carter) functioning on the world stage, something which American politicians avoided doing before World War I broke them out of their policy of…

In the movie Moneyball (based on the book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis), Billy Beane attempts to form a competitive baseball team for Oakland Athletics by assembling undervalued talent through a sophisticated approach of Sabermetrics. As demonstrated in the movie, a strong team can be built with empirical analysis of the game, answering objective questions and making data based decisions in athletic recruitment as against prejudice, wisdom and gut instincts. The…