On this day in 1919, President Woodrow Wilson attends the Paris Peace Conference that would formally end World War I and lay the groundwork for the formation of the League of Nations.
Wilson envisioned a future in which the international community could preempt another conflict as devastating as the First World War and, to that end, he urged leaders from France, Great Britain and Italy to draft at the conference what became known as the Covenant of League of Nations. The document established the concept of a formal league to mediate international disputes in the hope of preventing another world war.
Once drawn, the world’s leaders brought the covenant to their respective governing bodies for approval. In the U.S., Wilson’s promise of mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike rankled the isolationist Republican majority in Congress. Republicans resented Wilson’s failure to appoint one of their representatives to the peace delegation and an equally stubborn Wilson refused his opponents’ offers to compromise. Wary of the covenant’s vague language and potential impact on America’s sovereignty, Congress refused to adopt the international agreement for a League of Nations.
At a stalemate with Congress, President Wilson embarked on an arduous tour across the country to sell the idea of a League of Nations directly to the American people. He argued that isolationism did not work in a world in which violent revolutions and nationalist fervor spilled over international borders and stressed that the League of Nations embodied American values of self-government and the desire to settle conflicts peacefully.
The tour’s intense schedule cost Wilson his health. During the tour he suffered persistent headaches and, upon his return to Washington, he suffered a stroke. He recovered and continued to advocate passage of the covenant, but the stroke and Republican Warren Harding’s election to the presidency in 1921 effectively ended his campaign to get the League of Nations ratified. The League was eventually created, but without the participation of the United States.
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Ulysses S Grant played a significant part in guiding the Union army during the Civil War.
Explanation:
Military career of Grant started when he became a colonel of the 21st Illinois Volunteers at the start of the Civil War in April 1861. President Abraham Lincoln later made him a brigadier-general. His first great accomplishment came when his troops caught hold of Fort Donelson in Tennessee in February 1862. he established a reputation as a courageous leader when his forces seized a Confederate foothold, Vicksburg, Mississippi. later he was appointed as lieutenant-general and commanded all U.S. armies. His two most famous battles were the Battle of Chattanooga and the Battle of Shiloh.
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a half of the earth, usually as divided into northern and southern halves by the equator, or into western and eastern halves by an imaginary line passing through the poles.
Explanation:
<u>Answer</u>: <em>A. amend the Articles of Confederation</em>
<em>Out of all the four options that we are provided with the best option that is factory correct is the first one.</em>
<u>Explanation:</u>
The constitutional convention was done during 1787 with the thought of removing the flaws that were there in article Of Confederation.
Was done to make decisions about how American government needs to be run by revising the article of Confederation in Philadelphia Pennsylvania.
About 70 delegates together to give their thoughts and plans and come up with one decision to be implemented for running the country.
