To What Extent Did the United States Achieve the Objectives that led it to enter the First World War?
Date Submitted: 05/22/2004 18:28:03
Category: / History / North American History
Length: 1 pages (285 words)
Category: / History / North American History
Length: 1 pages (285 words)
The United States only briefly achieved the objectives that led it to enter the First World War. With Woodrow Wilson's demand for his Democratic supporters to reject the Treaty of Versailles with Henry Cabot Lodge's fourteen "reservations" (a sardonic mock of Wilson's Fourteen Points), the death warrant was signed for the Treaty to be accepted by the United States. This led to the uselessness of the League of Nations, because of the absence of the …
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…invaded Ethopia in his quest for victory. Self determination was also difficult to enforce, for the victorious nations of World War I were reluctant to give up the land that they captured during the war, or land they obtained by secret treaties. The League of Nations, created as to keep world peace, was powerless and could do nothing without the United States' help. Freedom of the seas was also briefly held, until World War II.
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