In 1919 Woodrow Wilson wrote a statement to Henry Cabot Lodge the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in order to convince him to be in favor of the League of Nations. Woodrow Wilson believed, that the League of Nations was the best way for achieving an equitable peace for all the nations in the world. He said, that the United States should not interfere in any case, where one nation has their own restriction. In addition, Wilson mentioned that the United States is not going to be
organization to take care of worldly matters. So we ought to begin this League of Nations as soon as possible and take care of these matters at once. As you may already know this opposition is being blown away mainly due to a few people, including Henry Cabot Lodge, Hiram Johnson, Robert LaFollette, and Senator Borah. They are all isolationism, therefore, they have who opposed any league of nations, and spoke out against the treaty, and the new league established in the treaty, and as well as against me
The Treaty of Versailles Despite Woodrow Wilson's plan for peace near the end of World War I, he failed to gain Congressional support for the Treaty of Versailles. The Treaty of Versailles was intended to be a peace agreement between the Allies and the Germans. However, once the negotiation of the Treaty, the Allies found they had conflicting ideas and motives surrounding the reparations and wording of the Treaty. The Treaty formally placed the responsibility for the war on Germany and its allies
President Wilson in the Twentieth Century President Woodrow Wilson was an early twentieth century president that held a large amount of power. Not only did he have extreme power in the United States, but he made important decisions based on his own personal beliefs and ideas that effected the world. President Wilson was geniunely concerned by the sufferings of humans. Wilson felt that his role in office was to serve the public as best he could. Contrary to popular belief he was not the
compromise with Henry Cabot Lodge’s revisions of The Treaty of Versailles. The President of the United States after World War I was Woodrow Wilson. Wilson was an idealist who longed for peace among nations. After the war he left for Europe to attend a peace conference where he, the prime ministers of Britain, Italy, and France met to discuss what provisions had to be taken in order to weaken Germany (Tindall and
Congress in on January 8 th, 1918 and They became known as the 'Fourteen Points' and 'Four principles'. Wilson also exasperated the Republicans because he refused to include a single republican senator; so the only choice he had to deal with was Henry Cabot Lodge; who happened to be Wilson's main rival. But this unawareness in bringing balance may have been the triumph, that would grow to obliterate Wilson. President Wilson and it would settle worldly issues controlled by the great powers. Wilson finally
This time on an international scale. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge wrote in a magazine article, “In the interests of our commerce… we should build the Nicaragua canal, and for the protection of that canal and for the sake of our commercial supremacy in the Pacific we should control the Hawaiian islands and maintain our influence in Samoa… and when the Nicaraguan canal is built, the island of Cuba… will become a necessity…” This idea from Henry Cabot Lodge proved why the government felt they had to do
for the responsibilities of a world peacekeeper. Due to a republican majority, senators Henry Cabot Lodge, Alfred Beveridge, and other isolationist senators helped to sway the rest of congress to deny the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles. These senators believed that by entangling themselves in an international organization they would create new alliances, which would commit them to go to war. Also, Lodge felt that the League of Nations would be able to control the United States military by
that people are egocentric by nature. Based on the definitions stated above, idealism and realism are significantly different from each other and their divergence of thought is more apparent when various proponents of each such as Woodrow Wilson, Henry Lodge, Barack Obama and George W. Bush have varied outlooks on comparable issues in politics. Subsequently, an idealist’s reaction to a particular issue would be a lot different than a realist’s response. Therefore, idealism deals with normative ideas
The 14 points, the Treaty of Versailles, Henry Cabot Lodge In 1918 President Woodrow Wilson delivered a speech named “The 14 Point Speech.” In his speech Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan to End WWI and to secure world peace. Wilson’s 14 points were designed to prevent wars, by securing borders, creating open treaties, freedom of the seas, free trade, and reduction of armaments. The most important point of the 14 Point Speech was to create a world organization to ensure world security. During the Treaty