AP US History Essay Research Paper March — страница 2

The cartoon (Doc E) shows how the Republicans felt about not being involved in the peace proceedings in Paris. When Wilson went to Paris, his delegation included not a single Republican which greatly infuriated them. He did not even consult the Republican leadership in the Senate about the peace negotiations, which was also an insult to the Republicans. Among the leading Republicans was Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts, who was also the chairman of the Senate Committee on foreign relations. Lodge and Wilson were the two great minds of U.S. politics at the time so they were naturally against each other because of their different partisan roots. Wilson?s decision would prove to be fatal to his cause because the Senate majority belonged to the Republicans, which meant that the

Treaty would not probably pass without a lot of their support. In his Economic Consequences of the Peace, John Maynard Keyes argues that Germany should have to repay the United States and other Allies for the damages they caused to them during the war. This was necessary, economically, for the U.S. and the rest of the Allies because the Allies needed the money from Germany to pay off their wartime debts to America and America needed the money so they wouldn?t have to use taxpayer?s dollars to pay for the debt. This would actually go against the Wilson supported idea of Article X because America would morally have to help Germany out because they did damage to Germany and Germany was damaged the most by the war! (Doc G) ( This issue would later be solved by the Dawes Plan of 1924,

in which American money was cycled around the world as loans, back to the U.S. Treasury as debt payments) W.E.B. DuBois, editor of Crisis magazine, blamed both Wilson and his opponents as the main reasons that the U.S. is not in the League of Nations, in his article ?The League of Nations?. He compares the U.S. government to the other governments of the League and the U.S. government comes out looking very silly. He makes an interesting, but all too true point, that one nation can?t control the world or just stay out of it, which the twin tower forces are causing to happen. (Doc H) Jane Addams? view of the League of Nations catastrophe is actually quite similar to DuBois?, but in a different way. She has found that the joining of the League by signing the Treaty is a very

difficult question to answer because of the multiverse of opinion. The members of the Women?s Peace Party knew there was a lot more effort needed to push forth for a sufficient international organization, but what type of effort would everyone approve? The question of the Treaty was an answerless idea among her group and among the government also, which had answers but different ones that they couldn?t agree upon. (Doc I) Although Wilson and his opposing forces were clearly against each other on their views of the whole Treaty of Versailles issue, they ended up being the main reason for the failure of it in America. They both wanted to pass the Treaty but only with their own certain reservations or without reservations. Either way they could never agree upon it in America. The

strong division of the public opinion and the twin towers proved to be too much for the Treaty to be approved in the United States.