Woodrow Wilson and His Policies
Woodrow Wilson, America's 28th president and creator/initiator of many of America's progressive acts. Such as the Anti corruption law, including Anti trust, election reforms, Workmen's compensation and Regulations of the Banking system. However, despite the brilliant policies made by this man, we saw his "defeat" with his introduction of the League of Nations to the European Nations after the first World War. His policies of the existing 14 points diminished to one lasting point that the League of Nations and further, he was unable to convince the Senate to sign and pass his policies therefore excluding the United States from the League of Nations. With his policies being said, because in class we've looked at a lot of the crucial debate over his progressiveness, I believe that there could of been a direct correlation between Wilson's ideologies as a progressive and the downfall of his time.
Aside from his known to be stubbornness and general incorporative actions, Wilson seemed to have a lot of supporters for his progressive policies and ideas such as his influence over the many American soldiers going into World War I hoping to sacrifice and do something for the benefit of America and the whole world. However, aside from these influences, his desperate last campaign for the League of Nations policy to pass still failed. Without the United States' involvement in the League, the policy was later proven to be a fail by many history with the key cause to be the lack of involvement in the United States. To conclude, despite the extreme sickly stubbornness he faced after campaigning, and the lost of followers from African American voters and women's suffrage supporters, the key factor to his downfall was a combination of the lack of attention paid to the Republican parties and officials. As after his mid presidency election, the Republican party began to control the senate. Despite knowing this, Wilson still would not listen to the senate and acted on his own. In the end, I think this was the key factor that caused the downfall of his policies and created the huge flaw in the League of Nations. However, I do wonder, was there any other causes that could've also played a huge factor to the failed policy?
I agree; Wilson's inflexible attitude towards the Republican party in the Senate as well as his adamancy for the League of Nations was a huge part in the failure of the League of Nations. However, I also believe that one of the reasons the treaty did not work is because of Wilson's failure to compromise with the other Allied countries. Because of this, the Treaty of Versailles stretched the original intentions of the League of Nations, and as we learned it ended with Germany paying a huge price and therefore effectively ending the League of Nations.
ReplyDeleteI agree; Wilson's inflexible attitude towards the Republican party in the Senate as well as his adamancy for the League of Nations was a huge part in the failure of the League of Nations. However, I also believe that one of the reasons the treaty did not work is because of Wilson's failure to compromise with the other Allied countries. Because of this, the Treaty of Versailles stretched the original intentions of the League of Nations, and as we learned it ended with Germany paying a huge price and therefore effectively ending the League of Nations.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that Woodrow Wilson's biggest downfall was by not focusing on the U.S. government as much as necessary. I think that because he was so focused on his progressive views, he didn't pay enough attention to what should be any U.S. presidents biggest priority, the citizens of the U.S. Since this was the case, the government didn't completely have their trust in Wilson. Wilson wanted to go to on the offensive in a way by going to other countries instead of intervening only when the U.S. was in danger. To conclude, I believe that Wilson's progressive views were the main reason that Wilson was not able to pass the League of Nations.
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