Lodge sabotaged the League covenant by declaring the United States exempt from Article X. He attached reservations, or amendments, to the treaty to this effect. Wilson, bedridden from a debilitating stroke, was unable to accept these changes. He asked Senate Democrats to vote against the Treaty of Versailles unless the Lodge reservations were dropped. Neither side budged, and the treaty went down to defeat.
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<span>the ways were the achievements of progressivism limited are
1.Did not want social & economic changes
2.Did not want to lose the high standard of living
3.Did not want to lose personal liberties that democracy gives
4.Wanted to keep free enterprise system</span>
It is important because in 1836, during the Texas Revolution, somewhere around 200 rebels including Davy Crockett and James Bowie held out against 1,800 Mexican Soldiers under the command of Santa Anna, the Mexican dictator at the time, for thirteen days.
They choose appeasment because their economies and reasources were too weakened by WW1 to fight another costly war. By using appeasement it ensured they would have a better defense because of borrowed time. If they had avoided appeasement and went to war, their military forces and economies would be insufficent and they would have sureley lost
