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The failure of the League of Nations can be attributed to many things small and large. The League of Nations was a plan introduced by President Woodrow Wilson in his 14 Point Plan for WWI. The main component to the failure would be Henry Cabot Lodge's muddling of the Treaty of Versailles and 14 Point Plan in Congress. His deliberation attempts were quite effective and eventually caused Congress not to pass the treaty. This must have been a blow to President Wilson's self-esteem and his attempts to keep his popularity high coming off a victory in WWI. Mr. Lodge decided to read the whole treaty in front of the committee in Congress to drudge the whole ordeal out and to have President Wilson's popularity decrease. Mr. Lodge was deliberately trying to rid the United States from any involvement in the League of Nations because he didn't feel that the U.S. should be involved with European affairs. His strategy of killing this proposal was magnificent in that he gained much popularity after dismantling the treaty. If Henry Cabot Lodge wouldn't have destroyed the treaty, the U.S. could have gotten more involved and possibly create alliances that would drag us into unnecessary conflict. All in all, the main reason for the failure of the League of Nations was Henry Cabot Lodge's successful attempt to kill it.