AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 1890 1919
THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR I
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Question
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Woodrow Wilson’s “Fourteen Points” were designed to provide a blueprint for world peace that was to be used for peace negotiations after World War I. How was his address received by British leader David Lloyd George and French leader Georges Clemenceau?
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Both European leaders supported Wilson’s platform without any reservations.
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Both leaders rejected Wilson’s platform, believing that it would give the United States an unfair advantage in world affairs.
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The European leaders welcomed the idea of a “League of Nations” and agreed to provide for its creation in the Treaty of Versailles.
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Both European leaders were more interested in punishing the Germans through reparations and loss of territory than in preventing another world war.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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.
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