HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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Question
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The United Nations ignored the League.
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The United States did not join the League.
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Although US President Woodrow Wilson was an enthusiastic proponent of the League, the United States did not officially join the League of Nations due to opposition from isolationists in Congress.
Detailed explanation-2: -The German government rejected the 14 Points as the basis of a peace settlement.
Detailed explanation-3: -The problem was that Wilson’s vision did not take into account the claims of France and Britain and their allies. Its most noted legacy was in the establishment of the League of Nations (although unlike Wilson’s ideal this was separate from the peace treaties and initially Germany was not admitted).
Detailed explanation-4: -The fourteenth point proposed what was to become the League of Nations to guarantee the “political independence and territorial integrity [of] great and small states alike.” Though Wilson’s idealism pervades the Fourteen Points, he also had more practical objectives in mind.