AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 1890 1919
TREATY OF VERSAILLES
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The Great War
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A second world-wide war
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Franco-Prussian War
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British Imperialism
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Detailed explanation-1: -From the outbreak of World War I, Woodrow Wilson pursued two goals: a non-punitive peace settlement to end the conflict and a reformation of world politics through an international peace-keeping organization to prevent such wars in the future.
Detailed explanation-2: -Most important for Wilson, the League would guarantee the territorial integrity and political independence of member states, authorize the League to take “any action…to safeguard the peace, ” establish procedures for arbitration, and create the mechanisms for economic and military sanctions.
Detailed explanation-3: -29.5. 4: The League of Nations. The League of Nations was formed to prevent a repetition of the First World War, but within two decades this effort failed. Economic depression, renewed nationalism, weakened successor states, and feelings of humiliation (particularly in Germany) eventually contributed to World War II.