QUESTIONS FROM INSTRUCTOR: During the first half of the twentieth century, two major global conflicts shattered the country's notions of peace and stability, prompting the United States to send money, munitions, and troops overseas. For this essay, consider the ways in which Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt approached foreign war. First, what is the background of these two presidents? Who were they (personality/education/family etc.)? What were their political ideologies? (A better essay …
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…His Fourteen Points gave his government a way to surrender without admitting defeat. On November 11, the peace agreement was signed by Wilson and the Allies (who would have preferred total military victory). As a practical instrument for preventing war, the treaty was useless. However, it helped to establish the 20th-century concept of war as an outlaw act by an aggressor state on a victim state. The league remained Wilson's constant preoccupation until he died in 1924.