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Why Did the United States Neither Sign the Versailles Treaty

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Why did the United States neither sign the Versailles Treaty nor join the League of Nations?


A) Republicans under Henry Cabot Lodge made a series of amendments to the treaty, which Wilson and the Democrats rejected.
B) The United States was not a legal party to the peace treaty and already had signed nonaggression pacts with Canada and Mexico.
C) The Republican Party was heavily controlled by the so-called "irreconcilables," who would not agree to any peace treaty.
D) After Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke during his speaking tour on behalf of the treaty, he was no longer able to sign the document.

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