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To enforce Soviet domination of the lesser states of Central Europe and to change some states that had expressed interest in the Marshall Plan.
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When it came to the Congress to approve the joining of the United States in the League of Nations it was blocked by the Republican opposition, especially from Senators William Borah and Henry Cabot (D).
The U. S. public opinion was still disappointed over the outcomes of the war. Also, the Republican Senators did not like what they thought to be a violation of the U.S. sovereignity: the covenant of the League in it's Article X predicted that in case of a member being attacked all the others should defend it.
This added to the historical isolationism of U.S. diplomacy stopped the country from joining the League of Nations despite its inspiration on President Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points.
he rise conservatism embodied in the candidacy of Ronald Reagan should be examined in light of events dating to the mid-1970s.
In the wake of the end of the Vietnam War, and with the domestic political turmoil still fresh from the war's divisiveness and from the Watergate scandal, the country was deeply split along ideological lines. Even within the Republican Party, conservatives were deeply divided between moderates and those further to the right.