Newsreels exist of the celebrations following the announcement of peace being declared and ending World War II and the signing on the battleship USS Missouri of Japan’s surrender. But the official end of the United States’ involvement in the “Great War,” World War I, seems to have fallen through the cracks of history.

There has been much written of Woodrow Wilson’s going to Paris to negotiate the Versailles Peace Treaty, but back home he suffered a defeat when the Senate refused to ratify it,…