USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR I

[SOURCES]
Why did Senator Henry Cabot Lodge oppose U.S. membership in the League of Nations?

(A) He feared Americans would have to pay the costs of League operations.

(B) He was alarmed that Wilson would be the League of Nations President without any oversight

(C) He was concerned the League would force the nations to reduce its army

(D) ** He believed that League decisions would involve the nation’s military in foreign actions we did not order

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -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.

Concept note-2: -Although US President Woodrow Wilson was an enthusiastic proponent of the League, the United States did not officially join the League of Nations due to opposition from isolationists in Congress.

Concept note-3: -On February 28, 1919, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts began an assault on President Woodrow Wilson’s proposal to establish a League of Nations that ultimately culminated in the Senate’s rejection of the Treaty of Versailles.

Concept note-4: -Senator Henry Cabot Lodge led the opposition.