After both great wars of the last century nations got
together to create organizations that would ensure that large conflicts would
not occur again.
After World War I, it was the League of Nations. When
Woodrow Wilson (who was reelected in 1916 after promising to keep the U.S. out
of the war in Europe) tried to get the U.S. to sign on, membership in the
League was rejected by Congress in the interest of retaining our national
sovereignty. The Versailles Treaty that followed the defeat of Germany also set
in motion all the elements of that led to World War II and the creation of
colonies, new nation-states, in the Middle East by the French and British after
the fall of the Ottoman Empire…..To Read More…..
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