He suggested and pursued the removal of trade barriers, arms reduction, and more freedom for those navigating the seas. These ideas went along with what was called the League of Nations, which was supposed to mediate disputes and supervise arms reduction while also keep the peace between nations. While these goals and ideas were not unrealistic or even misleading, they were overly idealistic. They relied on the idea that there were no real victors of the war, which was an idea that might seem ok to the United States, which had only fought in the war for about six months, but for the Allied countries that had been fighting for four years such as France and the British Empire this idea was not very interesting. The main reasons that Wilson’s goals were not achieved though, was because the biggest leaders of the Allies, France, Britain, and the United States dominated the peace conference at Versailles, leaving out Russia and Germany, as well as treating other smaller countries unequally. They ignored a global Pan-African Congress that had been organized by prominent black leaders, neglected Arab leaders who had been their military allies, and rejected a proposition made by Japan about a declaration for the equal treatment of all races. It is no surprise that Wilson’s ideas that included, “peace among equals,” failed when the most powerful countries did not treat other countries as equals. Aside from this the United States Congress rejected the treaty for peace that was eventually decided upon at Versailles. This meant that the League of Nations did not have the power that it needed in order to properly keep the peace, causing it to essentially fail alongside Wilson’s ideas of international
He suggested and pursued the removal of trade barriers, arms reduction, and more freedom for those navigating the seas. These ideas went along with what was called the League of Nations, which was supposed to mediate disputes and supervise arms reduction while also keep the peace between nations. While these goals and ideas were not unrealistic or even misleading, they were overly idealistic. They relied on the idea that there were no real victors of the war, which was an idea that might seem ok to the United States, which had only fought in the war for about six months, but for the Allied countries that had been fighting for four years such as France and the British Empire this idea was not very interesting. The main reasons that Wilson’s goals were not achieved though, was because the biggest leaders of the Allies, France, Britain, and the United States dominated the peace conference at Versailles, leaving out Russia and Germany, as well as treating other smaller countries unequally. They ignored a global Pan-African Congress that had been organized by prominent black leaders, neglected Arab leaders who had been their military allies, and rejected a proposition made by Japan about a declaration for the equal treatment of all races. It is no surprise that Wilson’s ideas that included, “peace among equals,” failed when the most powerful countries did not treat other countries as equals. Aside from this the United States Congress rejected the treaty for peace that was eventually decided upon at Versailles. This meant that the League of Nations did not have the power that it needed in order to properly keep the peace, causing it to essentially fail alongside Wilson’s ideas of international