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Woodrow Wilson

 

After the Germans signed the Armistice in November 1918, Wilson went to Paris to try to build an enduring peace. He later presented to the Senate the Versailles .
             Treaty, containing the Covenant of the League of Nations. The Versailles Treaty was seven votes shy of being ratifid by the senate. The President, against the warnings of his doctors, had made a national tour to mobilize public sentiment for the treaty. President Wilson had aswell have many interventions in countries such as: New Mexico, Mexico, Haiti, Dominican Republic, and Nicaragua Exhausted, he suffered a stroke and nearly died. Tenderly nursed by his second wife, Edith .
             Bolling Galt, he lived until 1924. The League of Nations was a former international organization that was formed after WORLD WAR I to promote international peace and security. The League of Nations was provided int he use of the Fourteen Points. The basis of the League, the Covenant, was written into the Treaty of Versailles and other peace treaties and provided for an assembly, a council, and a secretariat. A system of colonial mandates was also set up. The .
             U.S., which failed to ratify the Treaty of Versailles, never became a member. .
             Based in Geneva, the League proved useful in settling minor international disputes, but was unable to stop aggression by major powers, Japan's occupation of Manchuria (1931), Italy's conquest of Ethiopia (1935-36), and Germany's seizure of Austria (1938). It collapsed early in World War II and dissolved itself in 1946. The League established the first pattern of permanent international organization and served as a model for its successor, the UNITED .
             NATIONS. The Treaty of Versailles, signed on 1871 at the end of the .
             Franco-Prussian War by Bismarck. France was forced to give up most of Alsace and .
             Lorraine, pay a large indemnity, and accept a German army of occupation. The .
             Versailles Treaty of 1919 is the most famous of the treaties because it was the chief one ending World War I.


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