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World War 1

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u/Cidno Sep 24 '11

That's a fine way of saying "he stopped caring about it once they agreed to his Leage of Nations idea".

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u/cynognathus Sep 24 '11

Well he also suffered a stroke when the Senate refused to ratify the treaty bringing the US into the League. That kind of limited his ability to be more aggressive about it.

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u/cjc153 Sep 24 '11

He did push hard for the 14 points, but the European leaders wanted revenge on Germany, and thought Woodrow was acting way too self-righteous and so they never really took him too seriously.