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AP Success - AP US History: League of Nations & Isolationism Debate

"The Monroe doctrine exists solely for the protection of the American Hemisphere, and to that hemisphere it was limited. If you extend it to all the world, it ceases to exist, because it rests on nothing but the differentiation of the American Hemisphere from the rest of the world. Under this draft of the constitution of the league of nations, American questions and European questions and Asian and African questions are all alike put within the control and jurisdiction of the league…I wish now merely to point out that the American people ought never to abandon the Washington policy and the Monroe doctrine without being perfectly certain that they earnestly wish to do so. Standing always firmly by these great policies, we have thriven and prospered and have done more to preserve the world's peace than any nation, league, or alliance which ever existed."

Henry Cabot Lodge, Senate speech opposing the League of Nations, February 28, 1919

Question 1

Multiple choice

Henry Cabot Lodge's speech primarily reflects which historical stance of the United States?

  • Isolationism

  • Imperialism

  • Internationalism

  • Manifest Destiny

Question 2

Multiple choice

Which policy is Henry Cabot Lodge referring to when he emphasizes the importance of the 'American Hemisphere'?

  • The Monroe Doctrine

  • The Open Door Policy

  • The Good Neighbor Policy

  • The Roosevelt Corollary

Question 3

Multiple choice

The 'Washington policy' mentioned by Lodge is most closely associated with which of the following?

  • Washington's Proclamation of Neutrality during the French Revolutionary Wars

  • The Washington Naval Conference limiting naval armaments

  • George Washington's Farewell Address advising against entangling alliances

  • The Treaty of Washington settling the Alabama Claims

Question 4

Multiple choice

Lodge's arguments against the League of Nations were directly opposing the views of which U.S. President?

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt

  • Theodore Roosevelt

  • Woodrow Wilson

  • Warren G. Harding

Question 5

Multiple choice

The context of Lodge's speech was in response to the aftermath of which global event?

  • World War I

  • World War II

  • The Spanish-American War

  • The Russo-Japanese War

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