USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

TREATY OF VERSAILLES

[SOURCES]
What was the goal of President Wilson’s Fourteen Points?

(A) To impose disciplinary measures on aggressor nations

(B) ** To provide a plan for a just and lasting peace

(C) To distribute colonial possessions equally

(D) To implement a comprehensive reparations plan

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: -Wilson’s 14 Points were designed to undermine the Central Powers’ will to continue, and to inspire the Allies to victory. The 14 Points were broadcast throughout the world and were showered from rockets and shells behind the enemy’s lines.