HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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Question
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Britain and France refused to join it.
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Woodrow Wilson did not support it.
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the United States refused to join it.
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it did not provide collective security.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The League of Nations was established at the end of World War I as an international peacekeeping organization. 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.
Detailed explanation-2: -Soviet Russia and the USA were not a part of the League of Nations. The League of Nations was an organisation formed based on 14 points presented by the then American President Woodrow Wilson during the Paris Peace Process on January 10, 1920.
Detailed explanation-3: -The refusal of the United States to join the League of Nations weakened the League’s power because the US was considered on of the most powerful nations at the time. By refusing, the League was left without one of the most powerful nations.
Detailed explanation-4: -What would have happened if the US joined the League of Nations? Nothing. The seeds of the second world war were sown in the Treaty of Versailles. It doomed Germany to poverty and gave the Nazi party a fertile environment for both development of their ideologies and recruitment of followers.