Both European leaders supported Wilson's

platform without any reservations.

Both leaders rejected Wilson's platform, believing that it would give the United States

an unfair advantage in world affairs.

Both European leaders were more interested in

punishing the Germans through reparations and loss of territory than in preventing another world war.

America seized French and British colonial

holdings in Central and South America.

France, Great Britain, and other Allied nations were unable to repay the United States for almost $7 billion worth of war-time loans.

France, Great Britain, and other Allied nations

enacted trade barriers and tariffs against

American goods.

The United States put pressure on Great Britain and France to demobilize and reduce their military strength or face economic sanctions.

When Germany defaulted on reparations,

American investors offered loans to Germany to meet its obligations; which sent Germany into further economic instability.

The United States agreed to cancel the war

debts of Great Britain and France, but still

insisted on repayment from Germany.

The United States enacted trade barriers against all

European nations in 1920.

None of America's close allies in World War I,

such as France, Russia, or Great Britain, joined

the league.

Americans supported joining the League of Nations because is was proposed by President Woodrow Wilson, but the organization itself never officially formed.

After World War I many Americans were wary

of becoming too entangled in European

affairs and favored a more "isolationist"

approach.