WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -After World War I, Lodge became Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and the leader of the Senate Republicans. From that position, he led the opposition to Wilson’s Treaty of Versailles, proposing fourteen reservations to the treaty.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -Some senators who opposed the Treaty of Versailles believed the proposed League of Nations would infringe upon U.S. sovereignty and Congress’s power to declare war. Following the Senate’s defeat of the treaty, Congress formally declared the end of World War I by joint resolution in 1921.

Detailed explanation-4: -During World War I, senators William Borah of Idaho and Hiram Johnson of California, led a group of people who were against the United States joining the League of Nations. Also known as “the Battalion of Death". They were extreme isolationists and were totally against the U.S. joining the League of Nations.

Detailed explanation-5: -Republican Senators Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts (center), a “Reservationist, ” and William Borah of Idaho (left), an “Irreconcilable, ” led opposition to the Treaty of Versailles. Many factors led to rejection of the treaty, including bitter animosity between Lodge and the Democratic president.