Do you think the Senate should have signed the Versailles Treaty and agreed to join the League of Nations?

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Also, did Wilson make mistakes that could have led to a different ending? How could his actions have gotten a different result?
No sarcasm. I don't usually ask questions because I'm stumped -- my other questions were for other people's opinion. But I...am...stumped... And it's a terrible, terrible thing to be when you have a deadline to meet.

Answer 1

~The Treaty of Versailles was the cruel joke that led directly to WWII. Signing or not signing was irrelevant. Listening to Wilson and drafting a sane treaty would have made a lot more sense. The League of Nations is a moot point. It was designed to have even less ability to maintain peace than is the UN. US membership, in conjunction with the Versaillles Treaty, would have been meaningless. Hitler would have still risen to power and WWII would have still followed. Wilson's biggest mistake was to surrender all of his principles and goals in order to push the League through, but given the minimal role the US played in WWI, he wasn't really arguing from a position of strength. Blame Congress, the French and the Brits for the fiasco of the treaty, not Woody.

Answer 2

The Senate would have agreed to the Versailles Treaty as long as its reservations of American Sovereignty were guaranteed, but the vain and elitist Wilson would not deign to accept reservations as he believed that his judgment was better than that of everyone else.

An example of "HIS" judgment, was his viewing the horribly racist movie, "the birth of a nation" as being a true depictiont of life after the Civil War.

Despite the comments of some others, the US did in fact play a significant role in the ending of WWI. However, Wilson squandered any of his political capital by standing resolutely behind the utopian League of Nations, while allowing Britain and France to devastate the remainder of the "14 points" on which Germany had agreed to an armistice.

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Answer 3

well blaiming Germany for everything ws a bad idea...
Letting countries decide their own boundries based of ethnicity not good either considring everyone has their own opinion of how ethnicity shold be divided.

And considering Wilson had the idea of the League of Natins it would've been a good idea for the US to join.
But at the same time it's good that they decided to stick with only the Constitution to dictate us.