Why did the USA stay out of the League of Nations?
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There were quite a few reasons:
- US Congress didn't want its War Powers taken by Article X, giving the LoN power to wage war without consent of Congress
- Political infighting among Republicans and Woodrow Wilson
- Many Irish and Germans, a significant immigrant population by this time, thought it favored the British and were against it
- Wilson's stance of no amendments to the treaty, which some wanted, especially to limit the powers of Article X
With no way to form a significant voting bloc the Treaty of Versailles was rejected by the Senate, and any participation in the League of Nations. Isolationism probably played a part in this as well, considering that America entered a protectionist phase soon after, and really did not want to get involved in WWI in the first place.
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Wilson was unusual for his time. In an era when Republicans dominated the U.S. government, he was one of only two Democratic Presidents between James Buchanan (1857) and FDR (1933). (Grover Cleveland was the other.) Wilson was elected in 1912 only because of the "split" between Republicans (Teddy) Roosevelt and Taft, and Wilson barely won re-election in 1916 (277 electoral votes to 254) even as a "sitting" President, running on the slogan, "He kept us out of war."
Americans of the time reveled in their "splendid isolation," and didn't want to take part in "foreign affairs." In his Farewell Address, George Washington had warned "America" against "entangling alliances." Americans of Wilson's time (particularly Republicans) still clung to this idea.
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