ted it met Republican opposition. In 1918 Wilson had appealed for a Democratic Congress to support his policy, however, due to issues at home the voters did the opposite. With Republicans in Control of both houses opposition was immense. Once the Senate denied the League, Wilson returned to Paris for modifications, but once again he faced resistance. France was looking to obtain the German Rhineland; likewise France and Japan were looking to gain territory. The outcome was the sacrifice of many of Wilsons Fourteen Points to establish a stronghold for the League of Nation. However, the modified treaty was undermined by the return of soldiers when it was apparent that wartime idealism had plummeted and the war for democracy had failed seeing that the Allies greedy Imperialists. The illiberal, foreign groups and anti-British all had different views of the treaty, but ultimately it didnt matter because it only brought more attention to an immerging problem. Republicans felt they had the right to revise the treaty when it returned from Paris because they had had no representative in at Peace Conference in France due to Wilson and also because their soldiers had fought in the war. This sort of division was what defeated the Treaty, American soldiers had not fought, Republican and Democrat soldiers had. Thus Lodge delayed the treaty by holding hearings in which foreign representatives sighted their objections to the pact. Lodge then began to tact reservations on the treaty. However not all approved, many mild reservationists felt that Lodges reservation were too strong. They could have been persuaded by the Wilson to join the Democratic side, but he didnt defer to them. In an attempt to fight Lodges reservations, Wilson toured across the country, however this is what brought the ultimate demise of the Versailles Treaty. After a powerful speech on the behalf of the League of Nations, Wilson suffered a stroke. With no Leader in the Senate to rep...
