Instead of trying to reduce the burden of taxation, the
Republican Senate has spent its full time trying to defeat
the plan for a which if organized will cut down and
limit military armament among all the great powers, and
will make war (almost) if not impossible. If the Senate
destroys the ___, then the United States must begin at
once to arm on a greater scale than any other nation in the
world 3
-Former U.S. Treasury Secretary William G. McAdoo, 1920
Which term completes the excerpt?
A. Mandate system
B. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
C. Bolshevik Revolution
D. League of Nations