WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Democrats in the Senate, following Wilson’s direction, rejected Lodge’s proposal to join the League with his reservations. Republicans opposed joining under Wilson’s terms of no reservations, allowing the League to force the U.S. to enter a war without approval of Congress.

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: -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-4: -The Senate then considered a resolution to approve the treaty without reservations of any kind, which failed on a 38-53 vote. After 55 days of debate, the Senate had rejected the Treaty of Versailles.

Detailed explanation-5: -In the face of Wilson’s continued unwillingness to negotiate, the Senate on November 19, 1919, for the first time in its history, rejected a peace treaty.