Author Question: Senator Henry Cabot Lodge effectively stalled consideration of the Treaty of Versailles by the full ... (Read 428 times)

ashley · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

Senator Henry Cabot Lodge effectively stalled consideration of the Treaty of Versailles by the full Senate

a. by holding extended Senate hearings on the treaty, which permitted its various opponents to air their opposition to ratification.
b. by engaging in parliamentary procedural maneuvers such as reading the entire treaty aloud on the Senate floor.
c. by loading the treaty down with numerous crippling amendments or reservations opposed by Wilson and many Democrats in the Senate.
d. by mobilizing liberal intellectual and internationalist opinion against the treaty.
e. All of these choices are correct.

Question 2

The factor that may well have tipped the electoral scales for John F. Kennedy in the presidential election of 1960 was

a. his age.
b. his religion.
c. his televised debates with Richard M. Nixon.
d. President Eisenhower's heavy loss of popularity in his last two years in office.
e. his family.