After the Versailles conference, Democratic President Woodrow Wilson claimed that "at last the world knows America as the savior of the world! '' However, the Republican Party, led by Henry Cabot Lodge, controlled the US Senate after the election of 1918, and the senators were divided into multiple positions on the Versailles question. It proved possible to build a majority coalition, but impossible to build a two - thirds coalition that was needed to pass a treaty.
which president suffered a major defeat when the senate refused to ratify the versailles treaty
Woodrow Wilson