HIST 2057 Lecture : American History Notes Feb 28th
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V. ) other foreign policy changes: this war makes us a true superpower in the world and break our old foreign policy, we send 8,000 troops into russia because of the communist bolshevik faction led by. European market can get back going and we can sell our products; we also feared russia would spread communism to devastated nations from war. Nations can choose to deploy forces on misbehaving nations. Germany doesn"t pay off their reparations until 2010: wilson does get league of nations. C. ) versailles treaty: wilson brings back treaty for congress to approve, 3 groups: 1) loyal democrats they support wilson"s version; 2) republican. Reservationists - want changes to wilson version; 3) republican. D. ) no american ratification: america doesn"t ratify either version of treaty and america never joins league of. Nations: wilson wanted 3rd term but was too sick to run again, america apparently wasn"t ready to take on new role of world power.
