US Senate Rejects the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations

On 19 November 1919, the US Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles, which included the Covenant of the League of Nations. President Woodrow Wilson had resisted reservations promoted by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, and the treaty failed to secure ratification. The United States never joined the League. The photograph is a 1912 portrait of Wilson. Image: Pach Brothers, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.