League of Nations
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Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points ended with an ambitious step towards international unity: provision for a general association of the nations, later to be termed the League of Nations.  A governing body composed of national representatives, its designers intended the League to provide a forum where international disputes could be settled without resort to violence.  Peace could be enforced by means of mutually pledged protection among its members.  Wilson wished for establishment of the League above all other concerns during the Paris Peace Talks, and thus compromised with other Allied leadership on many issues.  The League was established in Europe by ratification of the Treaty of Versailles.  However, Wilson's own American Congress refused to ratify the Treaty of Versailles and thus establish the League.

 
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