AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 1890 1919
CAUSES OF WORLD WAR I
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maintaining peace after the war
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punishing Germany at the conclusion of the war
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stopping the Bolshevik menace from spreading in Russia
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winning the war
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Detailed explanation-1: -Note:Fourteen Points were outlined by President Woodrow Wilson in 1918 after World War-I. The purpose of the Fourteen points was to outline strategy to end the war, to set goals the United States wanted to achieve by fighting in the war and to prepare the way to maintain peace after the war.
Detailed explanation-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.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Fourteen Points were a proposal made by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson in a speech before Congress on January 8, 1918, outlining his vision for ending World War I in a way that would prevent such a conflagration from occurring again.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.
Detailed explanation-5: -Wilson’s proposal called for the victorious Allies to set unselfish peace terms with the vanquished Central Powers of World War I, including freedom of the seas, the restoration of territories conquered during the war and the right to national self-determination in such contentious regions as the Balkans.