AP Success - AP US History: Henry Cabot Lodge on the League of Nations

After World War I, Republicans in the Senate opposed the United States joining the League of Naitons.

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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

Short answer

Briefly identify ONE argument against joining the League of Nations expressed in the excerpt.

Question 2

Short answer

Briefly explain ONE historical development from 1900 to 1919 that influenced the arguments expressed in the excerpt.

Question 3

Short answer

Briefly explain ONE long-term effect of the United States' decision not to join the League of Nations.

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