if you remember your, from, from your history at school the, the, the first world war  the americans in the historic role of arriving at wars rather late erm came in to the first world war to win it for us erm and after it president wilson  who used to be professor of politics at princeton, just put that in, er  president wilson created, essentially cos we were all bankrupt at the time as usual er the americans the only ones who had any money left at the end of the wars, erm president wilson helped to create the league of nations, the forerunner of the united nations  but the u s senate refused to ratify the agreement.