The Senate's resistance to the Treaty of Versailles reflected what long-standing American attitude toward the balance of power in Europe?

a. That America would never be attacked on its own soil and so did not need collective security
b. That European wars would never leave the continent
c. That democratic states in Europe would always prevail, with or without American help, because they were morally just
d. That the United States would always come to the aid of European allies and that this fact did not need to be enshrined in a formal treaty
e. That European states pursued immoral policies in the name of the balance of power

Answer: e