AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 1890 1919
TREATY OF VERSAILLES
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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All nations would choose socialism
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World War I would not have happened if Bosnia could have joined Serbia
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The people of the world would all want to be citizens of powerful empires
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War would always occur due to constant militarizing
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Detailed explanation-1: -During World War I, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson promoted the concept of “self-determination, ” meaning that a nation-a group of people with similar political ambitions-can seek to create its own independent government or state.
Detailed explanation-2: -What happened to President Wilson’s goal of granting self-determination after the war? It was never realized. It was applied in Europe, but not to colonies in Africa or Asia.
Detailed explanation-3: -It was Wilson’s goal to keep America completely out of World War I, which began in 1914-and have the country serve as a peacemaker to other nations. However, his efforts were largely unsuccessful; many countries failed to take seriously any of Wilson’s offers to be a mediator.
Detailed explanation-4: -In his Fourteen Points-the essential terms for peace-U.S. Pres. Woodrow Wilson listed self-determination as an important objective for the postwar world; the result was the fragmentation of the old Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires and Russia’s former Baltic territories into a number of new states.