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America did not join the League of Nations because the Senate did not ratify the Treaty of Versailles. The reason for this is because America did not want to immediately send troops if another nation was attacked. The League of Nations had stated that, so the Senate did not ratify the Treaty of Versailles.
No. And that's why it failed.
Republican isolationists refused to ratify our participation in the League of Nations, because they feared it would give up some of our sovereignty. The League of Nations was virtually powerless without the United States.
The League of Nations was formed as part of Woodrow Wilson's 14 points.
Woodrow Wilson was unwilling to compromise with Henry Cabot Lodge, a powerful senator. Without LodgeÕs support, Wilson was unable to obtain a two-thirds majority to ratify the Treaty of Versailles and join the League of Nations.
The president that failed to get the senate to ratify the Treaty of Versailles was Woodrow Wilson.
The Treaty of Versailles was signed following World War I. It had many provisions, including punishments for Germany. The US Congress did not ratify the Treaty because they were for isolationism, and felt that becoming part of the League of Nations, a provision of the treaty, would draw the US into further wars.
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The League of Nations
The Senate did not like the treaty. It didn;t solve any problems and all it did was punish Germany. Also, it included creating the League of Nations, which the senate saw as forcing America to deal with Europe's many problems.
Nope
Supporters of the League of Nations in the U.S. Congress refused to compromise with Lodge and his Republican bloc that were willing to ratify the Treaty of Versailles with some reservations. Together, it would have given the Treaty the two-thirds vote needed for ratification; however, the unwillingness to compromise doomed the Treaty ratification.