Woodrow Wilson proposed a plan for peace after World War 1 that included open diplomacy, free trade, and the League of Nations to maintain order, but the U.S. Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles and did not join the League. Germany was forced to pay severe reparations after losing the war and blamed for its start, straining Europe's economies, until the Dawes Plan in 1924 lent Germany money to pay reparations to allies who then paid the U.S.

1. WoodrowWilson’s plan for peace
• No secret diplomacy
• Freedom of seas
• Free trade
• Reduce arms
• Self-Determination
• League of Nations

3. Germany loses
• Blamed for war
• Reparations
• Loss of military
• Loss of land
• Loss of colonies

5. Many fear it will pull US into more wars
Senate does not approveTreaty ofVersailles
• US not in League of Nations

7. US- largest creditor
• Countries owe US $
European nations can’t pay
The Dawes Plan
• US lends money to Germany
• Germany pays reparations
• Allies pay US

8. Kellogg-Briand Pact
• 1928 15 nations meet and sign pact
• War outlawed except in self-defense

9. Senate rejectedTreaty
July 2, 1921 Congress votes to end war
Congress ratifies separate peace treaties
with Germany, Austria and Hungary