Friday, October 21, 2016
League of Nations and Fun Things
While Wilson had various ideas for how to prevent future wars, I think his ideas were doomed to fail for various reasons. No matter what happened, after WWI, the British and French would resent the Germans, and the Germans would also resent the British and French, because of how much the war hurt each country. His ideas for a league of nations would not prevent future wars, just like how the modern UN doesn't do much to prevent wars. There would still be countries that were closer to one another in the league of nations, and they would still fight because having a league of nations doesn't actually help countries all that much. In addition, going against ideas of Britain and France would not work well, as then nobody would support Wilson's ideas. If Wilson wanted future peace, it would have been best if he just convinced the British and French to not hurt Germany as much, maybe by not making all of those small countries and taking land from Germany. If Britain and France still got some money from Germany, but otherwise Germany was left alone, this could have stopped wars.
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I agree with your point that the plan was doomed to fail from the start. I think that this is mostly because of the fact that Wilson only had America's priorities on mind, and nothing else. America was fine with the idea of "peace without victory" because of the relatively low cost that they suffered compared to the rest of the countries.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your overall point about the League of Nations. I would like to add that the League of Nations was assembled after WWI to try to establish peace, but it never effectively worked like it was supposed to. The "League" was supposed to maintain peace for the next war which was WWII but it never happened. Thus, you could claim it failed.
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