AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 1890 1919
TREATY OF VERSAILLES
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Wanted to establish his Fourteen Points as a basis for lasting peace and international cooperation
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Hope to reclaim Alsace-Lorraine, which was lost to Germany in 1871
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Wanted Germany to pay heavy reparations
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Wanted revenge for the war and compensation for its war losses
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Treaty of Versailles did, however, include one of Wilsons proposals: the establishment of a world organization to provide a system of collective security for all nations; this organization came to be known as the League of Nations.
Detailed explanation-2: -Clemenceau’s aims: to punish Germany and ensure it was too weak to attack France again. to return the Alsace-Lorraine region to France. he accepted the League of Nations but believed it would need to be strengthened to deal with Germany. an independent Rhineland which would weaken Germany.
Detailed explanation-3: -In the speech, Wilson directly addressed what he perceived as the causes for the world war by calling for the abolition of secret treaties, a reduction in armaments, an adjustment in colonial claims in the interests of both native peoples and colonists, and freedom of the seas.