USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Treaty of Versailles included a plan to form a League of Nations that would serve as an international forum and an international collective security arrangement. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson was a strong advocate of the League as he believed it would prevent future wars.

Detailed explanation-2: -Wilson also made proposals that would ensure world peace in the future. For example, he proposed the removal of economic barriers between nations, the promise of “self-determination” for oppressed minorities, and a world organization that would provide a system of collective security for all nations.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -The Paris Peace Conference convened in January 1919 at Versailles just outside Paris. The conference was called to establish the terms of the peace after World War I.

Detailed explanation-5: -Wilson’s Fourteen Points called for the return of Alsace and Lorraine to France and this was very agreeable to the French. France desired the creation of the state of Poland, as well as other states in central Europe, such as Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, to balance German power.