If the Versailles Treaty were handled better, and the Allied countries focused more on improving the globe rather than their own economy, they could have split up the war debt more evenly, perhaps preventing World War II.
In addition, the League of Nations ended up being horribly implemented. When George Washington left the presidency in 1796, he issued his farewell address, which listed many key points of what he believed the country's path should be. Most of his points were ignored, such as when he noted that political parties "may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion. " (Washington) Even though the most significant founding father proclaimed such hatred against political parties, Hamilton and Jefferson started a bipartisan system just months later. In addition, Washington noted that "After deliberate examination, with the aid of the best lights I could obtain, I was well satisfied that our country, under all the circumstances of the case, had a right to take, and was bound in duty and interest to take, a neutral position. Having taken it, I determined, as far as should depend upon me, to maintain it, with moderation, perseverance, and firmness. " (Washington) Even though America did not stay neutral when they entered the Great War, Republicans used Washington's address as an excuse to not enter the League of Nations. As Senator Henry Cabot Lodge said, "The United States is the world's best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her powerful good, and endanger her very existence.
