woodrow wilson's 14 points and league of nations?

Question

um i was wonderingwhy the us senate rejected the league of nations that won him the nobel prize and where did this succeed at?

Answer 1

The US Senate rejected the League of Nations because they did not want to get involved in any more foreign affairs like WWI.

Answer 2

The US Senate rejected the Treaty because it was a terrible treaty. The Germans accepted a cease fire based upon Wilson's 14 points, the other allies then disavowed the 14 points and prepared the Versailles Treaty whose sole goal was the punishment of the Axis powers, mostly Germany.

Wilson was unable to convince the allies to peace based on his 14 points and through his diplomatic idiocy, was only able to keep 1 point in the Versailles Treaty, the League of Nations. So when he came home Wilson, like a typically arrogant Ivy Leaguer, he refused to compromise with the Senate(Lodge reservations- who wanted to place reservations in the Treaty agreement so that the LoN did not have any control in USA)

The League of Nations did not work because like every pie in the sky liberal idea it was set up with the belief that everyone lived in a Utopia(rather than the real world) and the LoN never had any provisions in its charter which could or would provide the ability to enforce its decrees.

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Answer 3

In summary, the 14 points were as follows: (1) abolition of secret diplomacy by open covenants, openly arrived at; (2) freedom of the seas in peace and war, except as the seas may be closed in whole or part by international action for enforcement of international covenants; (3) removal of international trade barriers wherever possible and establishment of an equality of trade conditions among the nations consenting to the peace; (4) reduction of armaments consistent with public safety; (5) adjustment of colonial disputes consistent with the interests of both the controlling government and the colonial population; (6) evacuation of Russian territory, with the proviso of self-determination; (7) evacuation and restoration of Belgium; (8) evacuation and restoration of French territory, including Alsace-Lorraine; (9) readjustment of Italian frontiers along clearly recognizable lines of nationality; (10) autonomy for the peoples of Austria-Hungary; (11) evacuation and restoration of territory to Serbia, Montenegro, and Romania, granting of seaports to Serbia, and readjustment and international guarantee of the national ambitions of the Balkan nations; (12) self-determination for non-Turkish peoples under Turkish control and internationalization of the Dardanelles; (13) an independent Poland, with access to the sea; and (14) creation of a general association of nations under specific covenants to give mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity.

The US Senate rejected the League of Nations, due to their will to practice isolationism from European Affairs at the time.

The Treaty of Versailles (with Wilson's provision for a League of Nations included) was then sent to the US Senate for ratification (as required by the Constitutional process). The Senators feared that the League would threaten US autonomy and security by requiring the US to follow direction from an international body. Despite Wilson's best attempts to convince the Senate and the American people of the League's merit, the Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles and along with it membership in the League of Nations. Without US support and lacking any real enforcement powers, the League of Nations was doomed to failure and was in fact ineffectual in preventing the early aggressions that later erupted into World War II.

Answer 4

America was an isolationist nation at the time, and the senate feared losing national sovereignty to Europe. there were also various economic causes