HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
Question
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Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points pointed towards a fair and equitable peace treaty.
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A pacifist coalition had seized control of the German government.
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Germany began to suffer major losses along its Eastern Front feared being crushed between two Allied armies.
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Massive air bombings by the Allies were decimating German cities.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Which of the following best describes the relationship between President Wilson’s Fourteen Points and the Treaty of Versailles? The Fourteen Points added the League of Nations to the Treaty of Versailles.
Detailed explanation-2: -Wilson cited Germany’s violation of its pledge to suspend unrestricted submarine warfare in the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean, and its attempts to entice Mexico into an alliance against the United States, as his reasons for declaring war.
Detailed explanation-3: -The first goal of Wilson’s peace plan was to eliminate the causes of wars. A second key goal was to ensure the right to self-determination for ethnic groups so they could control their own political future. Setting up an international organization called the League of Nations to ensure world peace.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Fourteen Points speech of President Woodrow Wilson was an address delivered before a joint meeting of Congress on January 8, 1918, during which Wilson outlined his vision for a stable, long-lasting peace in Europe, the Americas and the rest of the world following World War I.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Treaty of Versailles was signed by Germany and the Allied Nations on June 28, 1919, formally ending World War One. The terms of the treaty required that Germany pay financial reparations, disarm, lose territory, and give up all of its overseas colonies.