WORLD WAR I
CAUSES AND COURSE OF THE WAR
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creation of the Security Council
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colonialism in Africa and Asia
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membership in the League by Germany
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involvement in future foreign wars
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Detailed explanation-1: -Congress did not ratify the treaty, and the United States refused to take part in the League of Nations. Isolationists in Congress feared it would draw the United Sates into international affairs unnecessarily.
Detailed explanation-2: -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. They have made the French treaty subject to the authority of the League, which is not to be tolerated.
Detailed explanation-3: -Answer and Explanation: The refusal of the United States to join the League of Nations indicated a reluctance on the part of the American public to get involved in any further foreign conflicts. This was especially true of Republicans like Henry Cabot Lodge.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.