HIST 2112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Industrial Revolution, American Majority, Shortage
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Wilson"s 14 points: january 1918 --- look like the progressive agenda gone global. #14 called for the league of nations: would meet systematically for rational deliberation and resolution of global problems. Democracy, order, efficiency, reason, solutions, free trade, self- -- all these kinds of ideas in the 14 points. Progressives true believers that they could build a better world. (wilson too). (cid:1) After versailles (we won"t always have paris) big failure: About the time the war was one there was an off year election of. Republicans took over congress. (no mas democrats until "33). Boiled down to personalities and powerful senators butting heads with powerful president, and boiled down to. Senators said wouldn"t ratify unless took league of nations out. Wilson went on tour, had stroke halfway through. Isolationism: treaty reflected old european ways, key to the league of nations rejected, american"s very disillusioned. Lead to strong sense of isolationism in foreign policy (military and political alliances).
