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Promoting [[Wilsonianism]] as the expression of American idealism in world affairs, especially regarding democracy and human rights<ref> the Term "human rights" was not commonly used before 1945.</ref>, Wilson promulgated the idealistic principles of the [[Fourteen Points]], and at the [[Paris Peace Conference]] in 1919 he exerted enormous influence to lead the world to democracy and a [[League of Nations]] that would prevent wars and promote democracy.  He succeeded in part, and the LEague was created, but the U.S. Senate rejected the League and the U.S. never joined.

Promoting [[Wilsonianism]] as the expression of American idealism in world affairs, especially regarding democracy and human rights<ref> the Term "human rights" was not commonly used before 1945.</ref>, Wilson promulgated the idealistic principles of the [[Fourteen Points]], and at the [[Paris Peace Conference]] in 1919 he exerted enormous influence to lead the world to democracy and a [[League of Nations]] that would prevent wars and promote democracy.  He succeeded in part, and the LEague was created, but the U.S. Senate rejected the League and the U.S. never joined.

When Japan seized Manchuria in 1931 the U.S. refused to recognize the conquest.  American sympathy was strongly on the side of the Chinese, thanks to Christian missionaries and publicists such as [[Pearl Buck]] and [[Henry Luce]]'s [[Time]] magazine.  When Japan launched a full-scale war in China in 1937, the U.S. funded the Chinese resistance, supplies arms, and even sent in an air force--the "Flying Tigers" under General [[Claire Chennault]]--to fight the Japanese invasion.  President Roosevelt refused to compromise with the Japanese, and cut off their oil supplies in 1941 so they could no longer make war.  They responded with a desperate attack on the United States and the British Empire that ended in total disaster for Japan. At wars ended the U.S. took over Japan with the goal of systematically creating a democratic nation, and succeeded under the leadership of General [[Douglas MacArthur]].

When Japan seized Manchuria in 1931 the U.S. refused to recognize the conquest.  American sympathy was strongly on the side of the Chinese, thanks to Christian missionaries and publicists such as [[Pearl Buck]] and [[Henry Luce]]'s [[Time]] magazine.  When Japan launched a full-scale war in China in 1937, the U.S. funded the Chinese resistance, supplies arms, and even sent in an air force--the "Flying Tigers" under General [[Claire Chennault]]--to fight the Japanese invasion.  President Roosevelt refused to compromise with the Japanese, and cut off their oil supplies in 1941 so they could no longer make war.  They responded with a desperate attack on the United States and the British Empire that ended in total disaster for Japan. At the war's end the U.S. took over Japan with the goal of systematically creating a democratic nation, and succeeded under the leadership of General [[Douglas MacArthur]].

===Cold War===

===Cold War===

===Human rights in the Soviet Union===

===Human rights in the Soviet Union===