USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR I

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Why did the United States Senate refuse to ratify the Treaty of Versailles?

(A) ** They feared joining the League of Nations would limit the ability of the US to declare war if needed

(B) They didn’t want the war to end

(C) They wanted Germany to take more responsibility for their role in causing the war in the first place

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -The Senate has, at times, rejected treaties when its members felt their concerns were not adequately addressed. 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.

Concept note-2: -The U.S. Senate refused to ratify Wilson’s Treaty of Versailles because, among other reasons, Senators feared that U.S. involvement in the League of Nations would mean that American troops might be sent into Europe and settle European disputes. By the late summer of 1918, American troops had arrived in France.