Despite his sweeping success in achieving progressive domestic reforms, President Wilson failed muster support for his most significant foreign policy goal: the League of Nations. Despite having compromised most of his original "Fourteen Points" at the Paris Peace Conference in order to gain the support of Great Britain and France for a League of Nations to protect world peace, and despite his grueling speaking tour intended to gain public support, the US Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles and as a result, never joined the League of Nations.
Authors John M. Cooper and William G. Carleton disagree over whether Wilson himself was to blame for this failure.
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