To begin with, the League of Nations did have good intentions to begin with and to say that it was a complete failure would be egoistic in nature. The League had reduced much pain and sorrow after the events of World War I.
The Annexation of Texas, the Mexican-American War, and the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, 1845â1848. During his tenure, U.S. President James K. Polk oversaw the greatest territorial expansion of the United States to date.
Francisco Pancho Villa had led the 1910 Mexican revolution and had mounted cross-border raids into New Mexico. 1  In response to this action President Woodrow Wilson sent a punitive expedition into Mexico to pursue the raiders.