The Treaty of Versailles was a treaty created at the end of World War I, in the hopes of establishing peace between nations. Although seeking harmony, the U.S. Senate refused to ratify the treaty due to the unpalatable idea of ​​U.S. involvement in the League of Nations and Woodrow Wilson's reluctance to compromise with Henry's revisions of the Treaty of Versailles Cabot Lodge. The president of the United States after World War I was Woodrow Wilson. Wilson was an idealist who desired peace between nations. After the war he left for Europe to attend a peace conference where he, the Prime Ministers of Great Britain, Italy and France met to discuss what measures should be taken to weaken Germany (the attempted ratification of Tindall and As Wilson began to form controversy in America, Lodge introduced amendments suggesting that the only way the Senate would approve the treaty was if revisions could be made. Wilson, in fact, rejected the offer because he claimed it would weaken the treaty. entire treaty (Bailey 1957, 7). Ratification approached, Wilson made one last attempt to help authorize the treaty. He went around America to try to argue for the treaty before the people of the United States to September 25, 1919 in Colorado, where he suffered a severe stroke. Wilson's obstinacy strengthened after the stroke, making it almost impossible to compromise. While Wilson was recovering from the stroke, Lodge made fourteen changes to the treaty, the most part of which concerned the League of Nations (Tindall and Shi 2013, 1014). Bailey writes: But the iron hand of circumstance had forced Wilson to compromise on many of his points to save his fourteenth point, the League of Nations, which he hoped would smooth out the injustices that had crept into the treaty. She was like the mother who throws her youngest children to the pursuing wolves to save her sturdy firstborn son” (Bailey 1957, 5). Wilson was not happy with the changes, but one thing he would not let change was the last point, Wilson's lack of negotiations was the main reason the treaty was never signed. Bailey writes: “A good deal of compromise had already been built into the treaty, and a little more might have saved it” (Bailey 1957,