HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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the creation of a League of Nations
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severe punishment of Germany
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freedom of the seas and no secret alliances
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a limit on the size of a nation’s army during peacetime
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Detailed explanation-1: -President Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points were designed to do all of the following EXCEPT: punish Germany and the German people for instigating the world war.
Detailed explanation-2: -There were nevertheless some shared components between Wilson’s 14 Points and the Treaty of Versailles. Namely, both called for a reduction of armed forces in Germany. German soldiers would also be removed from its territories, while any territories which were taken from France would be returned.
Detailed explanation-3: -The report was made as negotiation points, and the Fourteen Points were later accepted by France and Italy on November 1, 1918. Britain later signed off on all of the points except the freedom of the seas.
Detailed explanation-4: -The 14 points served as a basis for the terms of German surrender negotiated at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, but most of Wilsons 14 points were abandoned in the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I.
Detailed explanation-5: -Wilson did not think that Germany should be punished for the war, and therefore he did not want to treaty on Germany to be too harsh. It was a worry of Wilson that if Germany was treated particularly badly then it could provoke another war.