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    Wilson is responsible for the United States not entering the League of Nations due to his inability to compromise. At the Treaty of Paris, Wilson appointed only people who would support his views. There was hardly any Republican representation, despite their inevitable vote on the matter later. This caused anguish for the treaty and later Unites States’ involvement because the opposing political parties greatly disagreed on the terms of the original treaty. Also, Wilson’s commitment to the League of Nations caused many compromises to be developed to his original Fourteen Points. He negotiated to keep to the League, however this allowed openings for imperialism in his idealistic policies. The Treaty of Versailles included about four of Wilson’s original Fourteen Points. Also, varies groups in the United States opposed the treaty because it did not support…

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    witnessed. This war killed more people, involved the most nations and cost countries millions of dollars. The war started in 1939 when Germany invaded Poland. The Second World War was fought between the Axis Powers and the Allied Powers. The United States remained neutral during majority of the war, until they were forced into war by Japan bombing Pearl Harbor. After the war many countries experiences economic hardship and there was an atmosphere of international distrust. World War II could…

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    responsible for the war atrocities. Therefore, they were forced to give up too much and the German nation fell into uncontrollable economic hardship. Germany lost vital land holdings in the South Pacific to Japan. They were forced to give up lands in Europe and by doing so the controlling European powers reestablished Poland as a sovereign…

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    A revolutionary, but flawed man, President Woodrow Wilson blamed Europe’s fragile infrastructure on its dependence on a balance of power, and so he proposed his Fourteen Points at the Paris 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…

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    So why does the theory proposed in section 2 help explain the failure of the League of Nations better than the one in section 3? The answer lies in the historical background leading up to the formation of the League of Nations. The LN was a massive endeavor aimed at controlling or limiting various aspects of the independent militaries as well as the European economy. The treaty of Versailles attempted to govern much more that had ever been attempted to govern before – there was territorial…

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    The Failure and Success of League of Nations and United Nations Although League of Nations had achieved to accomplish the objectives in some instance yet the League is illustrated as failure due to the broke of second World War. There are numerous reason why the League had failed. In fact, the structure of League itself considered as ineffective. The League is known as the “Winner club “or victors of World War I dominated by the European countries. The initiative countries of the League -United…

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    The defeat of ratification of the Treaty of Versailles and entry into the League of Nations was largely due to Wilson’s stubbornness rather than the opposition forces; the liberals, who believed the treaty didn’t provide a peaceful future, and the conservatives, who disliked the idea of any foreign involvement, which were only minor parts of these two contrasting efforts. Political leaders like Herbert Hoover urged the President to approve the treaty, not necessarily for its propositions but…

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    On January 10, 1920, the League of Nations was created. It was created as a result of WW1 from the Paris Peace Conference. It was based in the country of Switzerland in Geneva. If the League was more reliable and developed superior, there could’ve been conflicts that would have been avoided between countries and overall benefitted opposing regions. Countries such as Manchuria would have no been invaded along with the expansion in Abyssinia. After the First World war, The League of Nations was…

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    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 secure a small amount of world peace. President…

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    on February 14th, 1919 following the end of World War I. The speech was addressed to the Chairman of the Conference, French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau. During the speech, Wilson presents the draft of the Covenant of the League of Nations, which he interrupts sparingly to provide clarifying remarks. After reading the Covenant, Wilson provides his commentary. The document only includes Wilson’s remarks and commentary, and excludes the body of the drafted Covenant. Wilson claims in the…

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