German’s warlords responded with a blow of the mailed fist. On January 31, 1917, they announced to an astonished world their decision to wage unrestricted submarine warfare, sinking all ships, including America’s, in the war zone. Unrestricted Submarine Warfare was important, because almost 70,000 people died because of German Submarines.
Fourteen Points
Wilson scaled a summit of inspiring oratory on January 8, 1918, when he delivered his famed Fourteen Points Address to an enthusiastic Congress. Wilson’s vision inspired all the drooping Allies to make mightier efforts and demoralized the enemy governments by holding out alluring promises to their dissatisfied minorities. Fourteen Points of Woodrow Wilson were important, because Wilson’s appealing points were not everywhere applauded, but some of Hard-nosed Republicans mocked the “fourteen …show more content…
He disagreed with the Treaty of Versailles and was the leader against the League of Nations. Henry Cabot Lodge was important, because he was one of many who killed the League of Nations.
League of Nations
Isolationists raised a Whirlwind of protest against the treaty, especially against Wilson’s commitment to usher the United States into his newfangled League of Nations. Invoking the revered advise of Washington and Jefferson, they wanted no part of any “entangling alliance.” Members of League of Nations were important, because it was the first major attempt to create an international organization that could prevent war
“Irreconcilables”
Loyal Democrats in the Senate, on November 19, 1919, blindly did Wilson’s bidding. Combining with the “Irreconcilables,” mostly Republicans, they rejected the treaty with the Lodge reservations appended, 55 to 39. “Irreconcilables” were important, because they opposed the League of Nations in any form.
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