USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR I

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What was one goal for a lasting peace that President Woodrow Wilson included in his Fourteen Points?

(A) maintaining a permanent military force in Europe

(B) returning the United States to a policy of isolationism

(C) blaming Germany for causing World War I

(D) ** establishing a League of Nations

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -They prescribed a program of transparency in international relations, free trade, freedom of the seas, reductions in armaments, national self-determination, and adjustment of colonial claims that gave equal weight to the peoples of the colonized countries.

Concept note-2: -Woodrow Wilson’s Message The 14 points included proposals to ensure world peace in the future: open agreements, arms reductions, freedom of the seas, free trade, and self-determination for oppressed minorities.

Concept note-3: -Most important for Wilson, the League would guarantee the territorial integrity and political independence of member states, authorize the League to take “any action…to safeguard the peace, ” establish procedures for arbitration, and create the mechanisms for economic and military sanctions.