Land, Crusader State, Wilson blamed World War I "on European alliance systems" because there "could be no lasting peace until ..governments spurned alliances in favor of 'concerted action between the Powers, and the setting up of an International Council (McDougall, 123).'" He presented his 14 points, which emphasized open diplomacy and the formation of a League of Nations to keep peace. Britain and France refused to budge on their harsh fines and land confiscations of Germany though and the U.S., as a result, did not join the League. It made its own successive treaties with Austria, Germany, and Hungary. When the Great Depress
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