THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
AMERICAN ECONOMY IN THE 1920S
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believed the United States should have the most power in the League of Nations
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supported a return to a foreign policy based on isolationism
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could not support a treaty unless it recognized a colonized people’s right to self-determination
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did not support the proposed changes to European borders
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Detailed explanation-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.
Detailed explanation-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.
Detailed explanation-3: -What was a major reason for the U.S. Senate’s failure to ratify the Treaty of Versailles? They objected to the League of Nations, fearing that it would supersede U.S. authority.