Tragedy: To an extent the war was a tragedy because of the many lives that were changed and lost. After the war, however, was a direct continuation of the actual tragedy of war. Attempting to dissolve hatred and hostility between countries Wilson devised a plan of common unity known as the League of Nations. Although he, himself, did not want to be part of it, Wilson played an active role with promoting European involvement within the organization. The goals of the League were to ensure that a global war like WWI never happened again. The book defines it well as "Collective Security". If every country would have done their part to promote and maintain peace, this collective security could have prevented another war.
What good came of the war?
The United States learned from the war and engineered rockets, airplanes, submarines, and tanks. Intense preparation for WWII was going on, just in case. The United States economy boomed with easily produced consumer goods which sold at much lower prices than ever had in history. Society greatly changed because of the war.
well first of all it wasn't really Wilson who didn't want to be a part of the League of Nations, it was more so America didn't want to join the League in fear that it would draw us into more alliances, which was a contributing factor to the tragedy of WWI in the first place.
ReplyDeleteI agree that lots of good came from war in the US. But in other areas such as Germany there really wasn't any good that came out of war. And to the people who were actually fighting on their turf, I think tragety was pretty much the only thing that amounted.
ReplyDeleteWell I think although Wilson made good efforts, there was a lot of built up hostility to kind of just dissolve it. I think that with war there is so much hatred on numerous levels that it cannot just be torn down with one thing. New trust has to be formed and I do not believe that comes easily!
ReplyDeleteTess is correct, Wilson believed that all the "great fighting powers of the world" including the U.S. (and not including Germany) should be a part of the League of Nations as to ensure diplomacy. It was Congress who ultimately would not agree to join the league.
ReplyDeleteBut you make a lot of good point's Rem- that although the war did bring a great deal of suffering, a lot of great change did come as a result of war. Great job :)
I would like to add that although the League of Nations did fail in many ways, it was the beginning of modern diplomatic efforts. Our diplomacy today owes much to Wilson, so in that sense this was another positive development. It is just too bad that it took so much devastation (WWII also!) to convince the world of the need for diplomacy.
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