USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

TREATY OF VERSAILLES

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What helped the creation of new nations?

(A) ** Self-determination

(B) 14 points

(C) The Treaty of Versailles

(D) The Brest Litovsk Treaty

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -The norm of self-determination can be originally traced to the American and French revolutions. The European revolutions of 1848, the post-World War I settlement at Versailles, and the decolonization movement after World War II shaped and established the norm.

Concept note-2: -Self-determination denotes the legal right of people to decide their own destiny in the international order. Self-determination is a core principle of international law, arising from customary international law, but also recognized as a general principle of law, and enshrined in a number of international treaties.

Concept note-3: -Richard Ryan, PhD and Edward Deci PhD Psychologists Richard Ryan, left and Edward Deci, developed the Self-Determination Theory (SDT) of motivation, which toppled the dominant belief that the best way to get human beings to perform tasks is to reinforce their behavior with rewards.