The League Of Nations: The Creation Of The League Of Nations

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With the end of World War One in sight, the leaders of all the major world powers prepared for the first major peace conference; a forum to discuss ways to build lasting peace. President Wilson had prepared what he thought would become the foundation for a lasting reign of world peace. He called this plan his Fourteen Points, and believed them to be foolproof. Others however, were more skeptical. “God gave us Ten Commandments and we broke them. Wilson gave us his fourteen points, and we shall see.” (Georges Clemenceau, the representative of France in the Paris Peace Conference.) In fact, many of these fourteen points were not ever put into action. Wilson conceded many in order to push through what in his eyes was the world’s best hope for peace: …show more content…

Although this “joint military and economic action against aggression” was a voluntary action, it remained one of the key objections to the League voiced by the US Congress. But had the US joined the league in 1920, this joint action could have greatly diminished the devastating effect of WWII. By the time every major world power was actually involved in the war, too many lives had been lost. Instead of joining the League of Nations, the US signed a separate treaty with Germany in 1921, which as history shows, had no real lasting …show more content…

They thought that it would limit “the right of our people to govern themselves free from all restraint, legal or moral, of foreign powers, Wilson assures congress that the League would hold no such power of restraint, and argued that the League was “not a straightjacket, but a vehicle of life.”. However, congress remained unmoved, and despite Wilson 's best efforts, failed to ratify the League of

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