WORLD WAR I
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
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Question
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Civil liberties were curtailed during the Red Scare
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The League of Nations was greatly weakened
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American troops in France and Germany were demoralized
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Congress passed the Sedition Act to silence public dissent
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Detailed explanation-1: -Its failure to ratify the Versailles Treaty meant that the United States needed to make its own separate peace treaties with the former Central Powers and their successor states.
Detailed explanation-2: -The treaty forced Germany to surrender colonies in Africa, Asia and the Pacific; cede territory to other nations like France and Poland; reduce the size of its military; pay war reparations to the Allied countries; and accept guilt for the war.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -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.