"Our first ideal is our country. . . . We would not have our country’s vigor exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which affects the world. Our ideal is to make her stronger and better and more powerful, because in that way alone can she be of the greatest service to the world’s peace and to the welfare of mankind."
—Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, speech to the United States Senate, 1919
Which of the following historical developments best explains the sentiment expressed in the excerpt?
- A long-standing foreign policy tradition of preserving unilateral freedom of action and avoiding permanent alliancesCevap
- BA belief that the Monroe Doctrine obligated the United States to enter into defensive military alliances with European nations
- CThe adoption of absolute isolationism that completely halted United States trade and investment in global markets
- DA reaction to the sinking of the Lusitania, which convinced leaders that maritime trade with Europe should be permanently banned
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A long-standing foreign policy tradition of preserving unilateral freedom of action and avoiding permanent alliances
The correct answer is the option focusing on a long-standing foreign policy tradition of preserving unilateral freedom of action. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge and other 'Reservationists' in the Senate objected to Article 10 of the League of Nations Covenant because they believed it would commit the United States to military actions without congressional consent, violating the traditional American policy of avoiding entangling alliances established by George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
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The debate over the League of Nations and the persistence of unilateralism in U.S. foreign policy.