USA HISTORY

Which statement is a criticism made by isolationists in the U.S. Senate about the Treaty of Versailles?

(A) Reparation payments would involve the United States in European economies.

(B) ** The League of Nations would involve the United States in future conflicts.

(C) The League of Nations would prevent former colonies from becoming independent

(D) The mandate system for colonial independence would result in loss of U.S. territory.

Concept note-1: -Which statement is a criticism made by isolationists in the U.S. Senate about the Treaty of Versailles? Reparation payments would involve the United States in European economies.

Concept note-2: -Why did Senator Henry Cabot Lodge oppose U.S. membership in the League of Nations? He feared Americans would have to pay the costs of League operations. He believed that League decisions would involve the nation in foreign wars.

Concept note-3: -Some senators who opposed the Treaty of Versailles believed the proposed League of Nations would infringe upon U.S. sovereignty and Congress’s power to declare war. Following the Senate’s defeat of the treaty, Congress formally declared the end of World War I by joint resolution in 1921.

Concept note-4: -When President Woodrow Wilson presented his negotiated Treaty of Versailles to the Senate in 1919, the agreement faced immediate Senate opposition. At issue was a controversial proposal establishing a League of Nations to assure peace through collective action.