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.
On May 9, 1846, President James K. Polk received word that Mexican forces had ambushed two of General Zachary Taylor's companies along the Rio Grande. He immediately demanded that Congress appropriate funds for war, proclaiming that the Mexicans had initiated a full-blown conflict.