USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM

[SOURCES]
What was President Wilson’s plan for a just and lasting peace?

(A) the League of Peace

(B) the Treaty of Versailles

(C) the Big Four

(D) ** the Fourteen Points

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -Wilson also made proposals that would ensure world peace in the future. For example, he proposed the removal of economic barriers between nations, the promise of “self-determination” for oppressed minorities, and a world organization that would provide a system of collective security for all nations.

Concept note-2: -The Fourteen Points. National WWI Museum and Memorial.

Concept note-3: -In the speech, Wilson directly addressed what he perceived as the causes for the world war by calling for the abolition of secret treaties, a reduction in armaments, an adjustment in colonial claims in the interests of both native peoples and colonists, and freedom of the seas.