On July 10, 1919, the president of the United States, for the first time since 1789, personally delivered a treaty to the Senate. This was no ordinary treaty; it was the Treaty of Versailles, ending World War I and establishing the League of Nations. As Secret Service agents and Capitol Police officers sealed off the Senate wing to everyone without a special pass, President Woodrow Wilson walked into the chamber lugging the oversized document under his right arm. Recently returned from Paris and his unprecedented self-assigned role as leader of the American negotiating team, Wilson hoped for prompt Senate approval but feared trouble from Republicans, newly restored as the chamber's majority party.
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The events on the said day/night was the Night of the broken Glass, or Kristallnacht which were the day when the persecution of the Jews by the Nazis openly started. It started because of the killing of the Nazi German Diplomat, Ernst vom Rath by a Polish Jew. The term Kristallnacht was coined because of the broken glass produced by the ransacking of Jewish establishments and Synagogues.
They could not vote or hold government office.
