WORLD WAR I
CAUSES AND COURSE OF THE WAR
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the defeat of Japan.
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freedom of seas.
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the collection of reparations.
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the division of Germany into two countries.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in war, except as the seas may be closed in whole or in part by international action for the enforcement of international covenants. III.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -“Freedom of the seas” is a principle of the laws at sea. The US demanded that Germany respect such international agreements which protected neutral ships from seizure or sinking. Germany’s ongoing contravention of this was key to the US Declaration of War in 1917.
Detailed explanation-4: -“Freedom of the seas” was the early 20th century idea that the world’s oceans served as a global commons for carrying cargo and facilitating commerce.
Detailed explanation-5: -Freedom of the seas is one of the original and most important principles in the history of American foreign policy. American statesmen have, in essence, defined it as the right of all peoples to travel unmolested in international waters in both war and peace.