The United States never joined the League of Nations, nor ratified the Treaty of Versailles. The US Senate, however, refused to approve participation in the League. But the war and the influenza epidemic that immediately followed resulted in the deaths of more than 116,000 American soldiers.Īfter the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, President Woodrow Wilson lobbied extensively for US support for the League of Nations, believing that an international representative body would prevent future wars. The United States had only been involved in the final nineteen months of the bloody conflict, between April 1917 and November 1918. In 1938, twenty years after World War I had ended, 70% of Americans polled believed that the United States' participation in that war had been a mistake.
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