With Germany soundly defeated, there was no public support for fighting new tyrants.Įuropean leaders meet in Munich, Germany in 1938 to negotiate over Nazi Germany’s demands to annex parts of Czechoslovakia, via the Royal Air Force Museum, London & Cosford In fact, prior to America’s late entry into World War I, Woodrow Wilson had actually won re-election in 1916 by being praised for keeping America out of the war. Having seen the horrors of World War I, which included brutal trench warfare, the American public was opposed to future military engagements that did not involve directly defending U.S. back toward a policy of non-intervention in affairs outside the Western Hemisphere (North and South America). Senate refused to join.Īfter winning the 1920 presidential election, conservative Warren G. However, although President Wilson had championed the international body, the U.S. After the war formally ended with the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, which treated Germany harshly as the aggressor, the League of Nations was formed.
His famous “Fourteen Points” speech to Congress in 1918 called for an association of nations to use diplomacy, rather than force, to solve disagreements. Before World War II: Appeasement & Failure of the League of Nations The first meeting of the Assembly of the League of Nations at Geneva, 1920, via The National Library of Norwayĭuring and after World War I, the United States president Woodrow Wilson sought to create an international body to prevent future armed conflicts.
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