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.
The president of the US during the Civil War was Abraham Lincoln. For most of the war it was Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), who proclaimed that the conflict was ultimately intended to preserve the Union of the United States. Actual hostilities began a month after his inauguration, on April 12, 1861.