Woodrow Wilson Accomplishments Of Ww1

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World War I “the war to end all wars” ended when Germany surrendered to the Allies in 1918 which then led to the treaty of Versailles which officially ended the war in 1919. Just like the start of the war, there were several attributes that led to the end of the war. To start off, the set up for the war had already given the Allies the upper hand and had them on a predestined roadway for winning the war most in part because the Central powers were weak and had unskilled military leaders. Yes, Germany was a newly emerging country with the dream and drive to one day be like Europe's elite, but chances of that slimed once it’s original generals either died or retired, and unskilled officials such as General Von Moltke took their place. The Ottoman …show more content…

For example, as was enveloped in the means of war in 1914. Wilson, like the first president of the united states, called upon the United States to be neutral. The accomplishment of “keeping u.s. out of the war” (see what I did there) even after the Lusitania was sunk by a U-boat earned him a definite spot in his next campaign. However, that only worked for about two years then we joined the war advocating world peace with uncle sam's foot. On January 8, 1918, he proposed his Fourteen Points as the basis for a peace settlement. In his eyes, they were terms for a better world. It in he entails the need for the “League of Nations” as a way of keeping anything like World War One from happening in the future, but again here we see a “good try worth a Nobel”. Wilson tried to make a form of a peaceful “kum ba yah” communion, but in politics there's nothing is resolved by just talking, there needs to be an incentive for someone to do something, or fear to stop someone from doing something.The League had none of these so eventually, it was just another try and by never even joining the League of Nations there was no solid ground of what had to be done. When the war finally ended with the Treaty of Versailles Wilson's attempt to sign the treaty was unsuccessful since it was deemed unconstitutional by congress. All in all, Wilson tried to implement world peace and that in itself is an accomplishment but in the end, they still