America entered World War One in 1917. America and the President, Woodrow Wilson, were horrified by the destruction that had taken place in such a humane part of the world. The only way to avoid a repeat of such a disaster was to create an international committee whose purpose was to prevent wars by maintaining world peace. This would be the task of the League of Nations. Woodrow Wilson was the creator of the League of Nations in his Fourteen Points Speech. This was ironic because the United States failed to join the League of Nations. This can be seen in the US delegations in Paris, the Congressional election of 1918, Article X, Wilson's conflict with republican senators and his problem with compromising, the Americans that didn't agree …show more content…
Wilson made a compromise whereby Japan kept Germany's economic holdings in Shandong and he said he would return the peninsula to China at a later date. The Chinese were outraged. Wilson realized that all of these compromises caused for injustices in the League of Nations, but he was hoping that this League would even out with good for America, which would have strong say in the League. When he returned home to get final say from America he was again hit hard by the senators. Wilson felt that strong support from Congress, especially in the senate, would be important with bargaining with European powers in the upcoming negotiations. The voters elected republican power in Congress in the Congressional elections of 1918. Wilson had enjoyed majority in both houses for his first two years in congress so in October of 1918 Wilson issued an appeal to the voters claiming he wanted to keep a Democratic majority in the both the senate and the House of Representatives. The Republicans became very angry saying that they had actually been more supportive of Wilson's war plans than his own party had. The voters responded with a fifty-seat majority in the House and a two-seat majority in the
The end of World War I left much of America confused on the country’s role in world affairs. Many people believed that the United States should primarily worry about its own issues and problems, and let the world handle their own problems. But President Woodrow Wilson was not one of those people. He believed that the United States should be directly involved in the issues affecting all of the countries of the world. He also wanted the United States to be the country to make a push for a League of Nations. “The people of the United States could act upon no other principle; and to the vindication of this principle they are ready to devote their lives, their honor, and everything that they possess. The normal climax of this the culminating and final war for human liberty has come, and they are ready to put their own strength, their own highest purpose, their own integrity and devotion to the test.” Wilson believed that if the United States needed to be a part of a League of Nations in charge of keeping peace around the world, this would keep America
Before his election, Wilson promoted American neutrality. He endorsed what he believed his Americans wanted, for this would get him elected into office. However, after his election, Wilson had a change of heart. A few events, such as the German sinking of the Lusitania and the Zimmerman telegram swayed President Wilson’s stance on the war. He started a movement toward war. A large variety of pro-war propaganda was produced and American troops were sent to Europe to fight.
President Wilson was a person who believed that there was a peaceful solution for any conflict. When World War I broke out in Europe President Wilson spent several years trying to keep America from entering the war. President Wilson even went as far to offer to be a mediator between the two conflicting sides to help bring the war to an end. In addition President Wilson was heavily criticized by other great American leaders when he declined to build up the U.S. Army to prepare for War. As much as President Wilson tried to fight against the war events such as the Zimmerman Telegraph, Unrestricted Submarine Warfare, and the decisive shift in American pro-war sentiment made American entering the war inevitable.
In the aftermath of World War I, during the years 1917-1921, President Wilson advocated the Treaty of Versailles, which called for the principle of self-determination, the formation of a League of Nations, and general amnesty towards Germany, as the solution for peace. However, his unwillingness to compromise led to widespread disagreement. The opposition forces in the U.S. senate consisted of the reservationists, who were willing to ratify the Treaty of Versailles with amendments, and the irreconcilables, who refused to join the League of Nations under any circumstances. If President Wilson was only willing to modify the language of the treaty, ratification may have occurred.
America had a strict policy of neutrality set by Wilson and did not want to interfere in conflict that didn’t concern the Country as a whole. Wilson did not want to waste American lives on a war that did not concern America.
The United states should not have joined the league of nations in 1919. The United States shouldn’t have joined the league of nations because we would be supplying the troops and food a lot and not getting anything out of it, and we were in no danger of an attack.
Before defeating Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes whom was the Republican candidate, Wilson used popular slogans like “He kept us out of war”, “America First” to attract the people who wanted to avoid a war with Mexico or within Europe. Wilson already knew who he wanted to be growing up and seeing everything for himself and getting that little experience at first in the government
He made sure to maintain the popular American public opinion to have control throughout his efforts. This force of public opinion is what ultimately made him back down from his goal of neutrality. There was a public outcry for America to join the war after being spurred by the Germans on three separate instants. These examples were: the sinking Lusitania, Germany’s actions in Belgium, and the Zimmerman telegram.1 These actions placed the United States in a place where they were forced to protect themselves and Wilson made sure that the public knew this and backed him. Wilson saw that the United States was bound to participate in the war because of these German actions and Wilson postured in such a way that he could reach his goals as efficiently as possible.
Wilson ended America’s neutrality needlessly during World War I, supplied arms to Germany’s enemies, at the behest of banking and commercial interests, and got our ships sunk. Wilson got his declaration of war after German Minister Zimmerman’s intercepted telegram urging Mexico to attack the U.S. if we declared war on Germany. La Follette’s futile filibuster couldn’t stop the war. Unintentionally, Wilson probably caused WWII, the Cold War and war in the Middle East.
Wilson abandoned the imperialist policy and brought to the White House a new way of looking at America’s relations with the outside world. Wilson believed that the United States was the most politically enlightened in a sense under god, he felt that people throughout the world had their right to choose their own governments. Wilson was only protecting people rights to democracy.
The League of Nations was an organization created following the year after the concession of World War I in 1918. The purpose of this union was to maintain world stability and peace. The League of Nations was proposed by President Woodrow Wilson in his Fourteen Points and was considered relatively controversial. Congress had to vote upon whether the United States would join or not. Two of the Senators gave speeches, Senator Gilbert Hitchcock and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, advocating their parties’ views.
In August 1914, Europe descended into war, without the support of U.S. Wilson refuses to get involve in the European conflict, until German forced Wilson to declare war on the central powers because of German’s declaration of unrestricted submarine warfare. When the war ended in November 11, 1918, Wilson negotiated a covenant for the League of Nation that he believed would sustain a world order. However at home, the congress rejected the League of Nations. Now, Wilson is admired by some scholars while hated by others. Some has praised him for his vision, while others criticized him for his impractical ideal.
As a PhD and former president of Princeton University, Wilson had a bit softer of approach to the presidency. Wilson, like Roosevelt, was a progressive reformer, instituting federal institutes, such as the Federal Reserve and the Federal Trade Commission, but Wilson had quite the opposite ideas of war and conquest. Wilson was slow to enter The Great War, and only did so to preserve American life when Germany began targeting passenger ships carrying American citizens. When America entered the war and helped a achieve a quick, decisive victory for the Allies, he was hailed overseas as the “hero from the West.” His creation of The League of Nations, which was shot down by the Senate during his infirm years following a stroke, likely could have helped prevent further unrest in European nations that led to World War
Immediately after the end of World War I Woodrow Wilson took an aggressive stance on foreign policy and thus he met with the leaders of the allied powers and wrote the Treaty of Versailles. Wilson discovered that there were “conflicting claims” which ultimately led to the United States refusing to ratify the treaty. This failure in Wilson’s foreign policy allowed for the country to focus on the home front where problems like the Red Scare were quickly becoming a problem.
It incorporated the arranged development of the League of Nations, which would serve both as a universal gathering and a worldwide aggregate security course of action. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson was a solid supporter of the League as he trusted it would forestall future wars. Arrangements at the Paris Peace Conference were confused. The United Kingdom, France, and Italy battled together as the Allied Powers amid the First World War. The United States entered the war in April 1917 as an Associated Power. While it battled close by the Allies, the United States was will undoubtedly respect previous assertions among the Allied Powers.