USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

LEAGUE OF NATIONS

[SOURCES]
The struggle within the U.S. Congress to ratify the Treaty of Versailles and the Covenant of the League revealed what deeper point about Americans post-WWI?

(A) Americans had become very committed to peace and welcoming refugees into the U.S.

(B) ** Americans were deeply politically divided over what role the United States should play in the world.

(C) Americans after WWI were in a very violent and militaristic mindset.

(D) Americans wanted to take the lead in world politics.

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -In 1919 the Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles, which formally ended World War I, in part because President Woodrow Wilson had failed to take senators’ objections to the agreement into consideration. They have made the French treaty subject to the authority of the League, which is not to be tolerated.

Concept note-2: -The terms of the treaty required that Germany pay financial reparations, disarm, lose territory, and give up all of its overseas colonies. It also called for the creation of the League of Nations, an institution that President Woodrow Wilson strongly supported and had originally outlined in his Fourteen Points address.

Concept note-3: -Wilson desired to create a system that would keep future wars from happening, as well as promoting a U.S. vision of democracy and peace. He believed that the best way to accomplish this goal was through the creation of an international organization called the League of Nations.

Concept note-4: -While the Treaty of Versailles did not satisfy all parties concerned, by the time President Woodrow Wilson returned to the United States in July 1919, U.S. public opinion overwhelmingly favored ratification of the Treaty, including the Covenant of the League of Nations.