Woodrow Wilson's supreme goal in World War I was to broker an effective and lasting peace. ... He did, however, make sure the League of Nations was an inextricable part of the final agreement.

President Woodrow Wilson addresses a crowd in St. Louis, Missouri while on a speaking tour to promote the League of Nations in 1919. Despite his efforts, the treaty was not approved by Congress ...

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Opinion Trump’s friendship with Elon Musk has a cautionary precedent. Woodrow Wilson also relied on a rich friend — then cut him off. One casualty: The League of Nations.

He envisioned a new global organization, the League of Nations, to prevent future wars like WWI. However, Wilson’s plans faced staunch opposition from isolationist Senate Republicans.

Woodrow Wilson, as you may remember, was a dedicated internationalist. He was a dedicated globalist on principle, by the way. I mean, he thought that “we should make the world safe for democracy.” ...

Upon the wall supporting the terrace below the Secretariat of the League of Nations is a tablet: “To the Memory of Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States, Founder of the League of ...

Wilson’s inability to compromise, and his failure to reckon with Republican gains in the 1918 elections, would cost him, ending his hopes for a League of Nations and, the president said ...

On November 10, 1923, President Woodrow Wilson stood in his dressing gown in his dark-paneled library, swallowed his anxiety and prepared to execute “an exceedingly difficult stunt” — the ...

Woodrow Wilson's supreme goal in World War I was to broker an effective and lasting peace. ... He did, however, make sure the League of Nations was an inextricable part of the final agreement.