American League

Paris Peace Conference in 1919, the United States had to decide whether to join the League of Nations. The League's purpose was to help maintain peace in the world by ensuring so many nations would not go to war at once again. Despite this fact, people in the United States remained split as the President favored joining the League of Nations and senators like William Borah opposed it; however, joining the League of Nations would have been the right move for the country to take in order to…

During the beginning of WWI, America chose to stay neutral. America had no motivation to go to war, Europe was far away and most Americans didn’t feel like it was their obligation to needlessly interfere in a foreign war, even though a large portion of the American population was of European heritage. Relating back to George Washington’s farewell address, neutrality is the best policy, this also reflected the views of most citizens and politicians leaving the US neutral until later. Wilson’s…

at times, the months he devoted to creating a free, stable, and self-governing world were stifled by opponents and even friends abroad and at home. Prior to the political war he fought with conservatives over the United States’ involvement in the League of Nations, Wilson had his fair share of problems during the Great War and the signing of the Versailles peace treaty. Edward M. House, a man who Knock describes as Wilson’s “most trusted counselor”, had ambitions of his own, ambitions which…

Peace Conference and with it the groundworks for an effective peace with the creation of a League of Nations. The League would serve as an international parliamentary system responsible for the maintenance of peace through a system of collective security, whereby external aggression against a member nation would be perceived as an act of war against the whole body of nations. A new world order led by the League of Nations, Wilson argued, would see Europe peacefully through the 20th century.…

The war caused America to do quite a few un-American things during that time but it was also able to push through a few final reforms needed in progressivism especially when it came to labor reform and equal rights. Though many of those steps taken towards equal rights would be taken away after the war ended. This also saw an end to major progressive reform on the scale seen during Wilson’s presidency before the war. That did not mean progressivism was over though, a few major reforms were still…

He suggested and pursued the removal of trade barriers, arms reduction, and more freedom for those navigating the seas. These ideas went along with what was called the League of Nations, which was supposed to mediate disputes and supervise arms reduction while also keep the peace between nations. While these goals and ideas were not unrealistic or even misleading, they were overly idealistic. They relied on the idea that…

not affect you personally, the amount of hate and disunity that has spread like wildfire in this country since the day Donald Trump has announced this election should awaken even the most ignorant of us. I am proud to know that students of the Ivy League schools, where individuals are deemed to be upper class, were visibly affected by this election. I too wish I could run and scream and cry the day after this terrible election. The amount of times I cried that day was too many to count. This…

As the Great War began in 1914 and ended in 1918 , president Woodrow Wilson established his foreign policy which was known as “Liberal Internalism”, which is “A foreign policy doctrine that argues about how the liberal states should involve themselves in other sovereign states(United Nations) in order to pursue liberal objectives”.This policy went hand in hand and made it clear that it was now the united states turn to promote both a free market and a political democracy, which Wilson later did…

not seek revenge towards the Allies (Mendum). Wilson was also interested in enacting his Fourteen Points, which were a list of proposed war aims dealing with territorial and political settlements and preventing war in the future partly through the League of Nations (Kushner). In the middle of Clemenceau and Wilson was David Lloyd George, prime minister of Britain, who believed that Germany should be punished but too harshly (Mendum). Because of each countries’ specific interests, the treaty that…

In this way, Wilson was successful in establishing a League of Nations, however, he was not successful in convincing his own country to join or in having the organization have a sufficient amount of power to be considered a strongly influential force internationally. <br> <br>Although Wilson wished to create…