AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 1890 1919
THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR I
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Woodrow Wilson backed out of peace talks because he did not like Great Britain and France.
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The U.S. did not want to stay involved in world affairs, and signing would mandate joining the League of Nations.
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Great Britain and France did not sign, either, so the U.S. followed suit.
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Germany would not agree to stop attacking France, so the U.S. responded.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 1919 the Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles, which formally ended World War I, in part because President Woodrow Wilson had failed to take senators’ objections to the agreement into consideration. They have made the French treaty subject to the authority of the League, which is not to be tolerated.
Detailed explanation-2: -The United States never ratified the Versailles treaty and made a separate peace treaty with Germany. Although the armistice of 11 November 1918 ended the actual fighting, it took six months of Allied negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference to conclude the peace treaty.
Detailed explanation-3: -In the face of Wilson’s continued unwillingness to negotiate, the Senate on November 19, 1919, for the first time in its history, rejected a peace treaty.
Detailed explanation-4: -Why did the US reject the Treaty of Versailles? The US viewed the treaty as it not being able to build lasting peace. Many Americans objected to the settlement especially Woodrow Wilson’s League of Nations. With this, the US made a treaty years later with Germany and its allies.