US in League of the Nations at start

In the late stages of the war, Wilson took personal control of negotiations with Germany, including the armistice. He issued his Fourteen Points, his view of a post-war world that could avoid another terrible conflict. He went to Paris in 1919 to create the League of Nations and shape the Treaty of Versailles, with special attention on creating new nations out of defunct empires. Largely for his efforts to form the League, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In 1919, during the bitter fight with the Republican-controlled Senate over the U.S. joining the League of Nations, Wilson collapsed with a debilitating stroke. He refused to compromise, effectively destroying any chance for ratification. The League of Nations was established anyway, but the United States never joined.

Woodrow Wilson never reached this objective for his aprioristic refuse of compromise, but the question is WHAT IF...
By reaching a compromise with republican majority in Senate he reaches the goal to have USA in League of the Nations from the start?
Would history change?
 

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I can see Japan being a little more cautious in their wording when they invaded Manchuria if the US were in the LoN. Also Weimar Germany might have been allowed to become LoN member a year or two earlier than OTL. One can wonder how the US would contribute to Human Right work, such as the rights of refugees and the campaigns against slavery.
 
One of the consequences....

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....U.S. mandate on PALESTINE? why not?
 
The U.S. would be getting its hands on some mandates had it joined the League, but I think Palestine was reserved for the Brits.

We were actually offered Constantinople, which would definitely be interesting. We were a neutral player in the region so the other great powers wanted us to have it. However, I don't think Ataturk would have liked us holding onto that city.

Interestingly, I think we've just caused a Turkish-American War in the '20s!
 
The U.S. would be getting its hands on some mandates had it joined the League, but I think Palestine was reserved for the Brits.

We were actually offered Constantinople, which would definitely be interesting. We were a neutral player in the region so the other great powers wanted us to have it. However, I don't think Ataturk would have liked us holding onto that city.

Interestingly, I think we've just caused a Turkish-American War in the '20s!

With the participation of USA to the San Remo Conference and having USA the strongest number of Zionist Jews the whole matter of Levant Mandates could be rediscussed in its entirety at least only just because the US delegate was just Louis Dembitz Brandeis
 
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