The League of Nations was supposed to do many things, but first and foremost was to prevent another world war, which it failed to do.
Woodrow Wilson proposed the League of Nations.
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Woodrow Wilson.
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Woodrow Wilson. Woodrow Wilson wanted to avoid the violence seen in World War I. He thought that the League Of Nations would avoid another war like that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Origin_of_the_League_of_Nations.png
No. Although President Woodrow Wilson wanted the US to join, the US Senate refused to approve it. The greatest objection was to Article X, under which member nations would assist other members who were attacked, as it could have drawn the US into more foreign wars (as treaties often did for countries in earlier wars).
He had entertained the idea of having a league of nations to serve as peacekeepers for many years. He was the one who worked the hardest to get the creation of the league into the treaty that ended WW I.
been willing to compromise with League opponents in Congress
The League of Nations was one of President Woodrow Wilson's final points of his 14 points. The League's members nations would help to preserve peace and prevent future wars by pledging to respect and protect one another's territory and political independence. It was a result of the Paris Peace Conference. The outcome was that of noteable success, and failure. The league broke up after world war2
Following WWI, President Woodrow Wilson - in an effort to avoid another world war - suggested the League of Nations: a forum through which the world's powers could discuss matters and provide assistance to threatened nations. Ideally, the world would approach a status of peace. However, the League was inefficient, with state actors lacking incentive to assist those threatened nations. To that end, Wilson neglected those Powers in the US Constitution that are granted to Congress. Among those are the rights to make treaties and declare war. Thus, the US could not join the League of Nations, a committe that would eventually be terminated and replaced by the United Nations.