42 countries joined at the start. By the 1930s this had risen to 60.
May 1920, the US Senate voted against Versailles.
The USSR did not join the League. In 1919 it set up the Comintern to cause revolution.
Germany was not allowed to join the League as a punishment for causing WWI.
The leading members were Britain and France, helped by Japan and Italy.
cost of membership dues
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Approve the US' membership in the League of Nations.
William Cabot Lodge
The League of Nations failed because it did not have total membership, withdrawal was easy, it's Security Council was a law unto itself, it did not have a standing army... It was replaced with the United Nations.
Harding reflected isolationism by opposing U.S. membership in the League of Nations.
Yes they were in the assembley but not on the council, so they were not big decision makers
Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson
Some thought the treat dealt too harshly with Germany.Some thought participation in the League of Nations marked a permanent American commitment to international affairs.
many senators thought that joining the league of nations would compromise soverignty in the united states which is why they rejected Wilson´s 14 points.