Question

Which was a reason that Wilson's dream of a "peace without victory" failed at the end of World War I?

A.
The American people voted Wilson out of office before he could sign a peace treaty.

B.
France and England wanted to punish Germany for starting the war.

C.
France and England refused to join the League of Nations.

D.
Germany refused to accept Wilson's terms for surrender.

Answer 1

C? @samanthagreer

Answer 2

@Awolflover1 if you can, not bugging you

Answer 3

@Jesstho.-.

Answer 4

I agree with your answer. If you feel like that's the answer just go with your gut.

Answer 5

We refused to join the league of nation. (??) That decision took place after the victory, ie some two years after the hope of getting peace without victory had been abandoned. Basically, "Peace Without Victory" got nowhere because neither side was willing to settle for it. Both sides were fighting the war on credit and looked to reparations from the defeated enemy to pay their bills for them. Nor would they call off the war without substantial territorial gains to make it look as if the carnage had "achieved" something. Wilson could, in theory, have coerced the Allies into accepting his terms, by stopping vital exports to them from the US; but he had no equivalent "lever" against the Central Powers, so this would have produced a German victory, not a compromise. Wilson did not want that any more than he wanted an outright allied win - maybe even less. Wilson's attempt to get a peace conference going in Dec 1916 came to nothing, and a few weeks later Germany declared unrestricted u-boat warfare, which, since it targeted neutral (including American) merchant ships as well as Allied ones, soon made US neutrality impossible to maintain. Once the US had declared war on Germany in Apr 1917, the idea of peace without victory was as dead mutton.