THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE COLD WAR
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they will drag us into foreign conflict
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They will cost too much money to join.
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The U.S. isn’t very influential in the world
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The U.S. wants to be the leader of the world
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Detailed explanation-1: -Motivated by Republican concerns that the League would commit the United States to an expensive organization that would reduce the United States’ ability to defend its own interests, Lodge led the opposition to joining the League.
Detailed explanation-2: -Once World War II began, President Franklin D. Roosevelt determined that U.S. leadership was essential for the creation of another international organization aimed at preserving peace, and his administration engaged in international diplomacy in pursuit of that goal.
Detailed explanation-3: -As a result, the United States never joined the League of Nations. An intergovernmental organization founded on January 10, 1920, as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. It was the first international organization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace.
Detailed explanation-4: -American absence defanged the League, making it unable to effectively enforce its decisions, as without America’s military presence the League lost the ability to create a formidable standing army, and so none was established.