WWI and the Russian Revolution Term Paper

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The makers of the peace settlement hoped to reduce the possibility of future conflict by taking away Germany's army and controlling its political system. This proved impossible, and only provoked more violence in the long run, as Germans grew more sympathetic to fascism as a result.

Third, why did the United States Senate reject the Treaty of Versailles? What objections did they have to the treaty, especially to the League of Nations? Why was the United States not ready for peace through collective security?

The United States at the time was still isolationist in its philosophy. It had come to participate in the war fairly late, and had little appreciation about how bloody and terrible it had been, through the system of trench warfare, for the major participating European powers. The U.S. still believed the Atlantic Ocean could protect itself from most major European conflicts, and it had felt less anxiety about becoming involved in future European conflicts, as its economy and infrastructure were less damaged by the events of World War II. This was why the United States Congress rejected the League of Nations.
It feared that the League was exactly the sort of type of entangling European alliance that the U.S. had always tried to avoid, and even President Wilson felt that the treaty punished Germany excessively and unfairly for the war and demonstrated the perpetuation of European hostilities that could lead to future conflict and draw the United States into war.

Fourth, why did the newly created League of Nations not keep the peace? To what extent did sovereign interests, nationalist sentiments, and anti-colonialism interfere with a lasting peace? What.....

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