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AP U.S. History Exam 2.40. What does the image suggest about the United States' role in the League of Nations?
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AP U.S. History Exam 2.40. What does the image suggest about the United States' role in the League of Nations?
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[ musical flourish ]
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And here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by the Nobel Prize,
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a reward for the invention of the silent clock tower.
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All right, here's the picture.
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All right, what does the image suggest about the United States' role
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in the League of Nations?
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And here are your potential answers.
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[ mumbles ]
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All right. Well, President Wilson went into post-World War I
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peace negotiations with plans
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so noble that they earned him a Nobel Peace Prize.
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Well, let's see how Wilson's plans for the League of Nations
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became a little, uh...
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disconnected from reality.
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Does the image suggest that B -
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the United States supported the positions of its allies
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in the League of Nations?
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Well, unfortunately, Wilson failed to gain sufficient Senate
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support for joining the League,
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so the U.S. became the missing piece
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in a now incomplete bridge. How embarrassing.
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That busts up B.
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Does the image suggest that C -
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the League needed the United States to separate
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opposing nations?
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Hmm. Well, all nations in the cartoon were on the same side
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in World War I, so that throws a wrench in C.
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Does the image imply that D -
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the United States was the most powerful country
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in the organization?
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Well, actually, the U.S. is the smallest stone in the image,
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which doesn't really suggest it'd have been the group's
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most powerful nation.
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Which means the image suggests that A -
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the League of Nations was weakened by the United States'
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refusal to join.
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After the Senate failed to ratify the agreement,
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all that remained of the League of Nations was a faulty
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bridge desperately in need of its missing American-made piece.
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So the answer is A.
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Without the United States, the League of Nations remained
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a largely ineffective organization,
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leaving its engineers scrambling in search of
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a sturdy plan for the future.
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[ scraping ]
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