The motives of the USA at the Peace Treaty!
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- President Woodrow Wilson Led American Delegation
-Submitted 14 points
-Wanted to rebuild Germany on democratic lines
-Wanted self determination for many European countries
-He was a priest before he came president.
-Wanted disarmament and a league of nations (where countries could talk out their problems)
Subjunctive Question:
What would've happened if the US had joined the League of Nations when it was being created?
Fun fact! President Wilson did not learn to read until he was 11 years old.
A famous quote from Woodrow Wilson is "Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting"
President Wilson of the USA came to the conference with the intent of relaxed punishment against the Germans because he thought that if Germany were to be severely punished an uprising of rebellion could occur. He wanted to strengthen democracy inside the defeated nations, so that its people would take initiative and not let their leaders lead them towards another war. Wilson hoped that nations would co-operate to achieve world peace and in his 14th point he proposed the setting up of an International body called the League of Nations. Wilson believed in self determination and wanted people all over Eastern Europe to govern themselves rather than be apart of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
"We entered this war because violations of right had occurred which touched us to the quick and made the life of our own people impossible unless they were corrected and the world secure once for all against their recurrence. What we demand in this war, therefore, is nothing peculiar to ourselves. It is that the world be made fit and safe to live in; and particularly that it be made safe for every peace-loving nation which, like our own, wishes to live its own life, determine its own institutions, be assured of justice and fair dealing by the other peoples of the world as against force and selfish aggression." -President Wilson
"Moreover, this meeting signifies for us the end of this terrible war, which threatened to destroy civilization and the world itself. It is a delightful sensation for us to feel that we are meeting at a moment when this terrible menace has ceased to exist." - President Wilson"
-Submitted 14 points
-Wanted to rebuild Germany on democratic lines
-Wanted self determination for many European countries
-He was a priest before he came president.
-Wanted disarmament and a league of nations (where countries could talk out their problems)
Subjunctive Question:
What would've happened if the US had joined the League of Nations when it was being created?
Fun fact! President Wilson did not learn to read until he was 11 years old.
A famous quote from Woodrow Wilson is "Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting"
President Wilson of the USA came to the conference with the intent of relaxed punishment against the Germans because he thought that if Germany were to be severely punished an uprising of rebellion could occur. He wanted to strengthen democracy inside the defeated nations, so that its people would take initiative and not let their leaders lead them towards another war. Wilson hoped that nations would co-operate to achieve world peace and in his 14th point he proposed the setting up of an International body called the League of Nations. Wilson believed in self determination and wanted people all over Eastern Europe to govern themselves rather than be apart of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
"We entered this war because violations of right had occurred which touched us to the quick and made the life of our own people impossible unless they were corrected and the world secure once for all against their recurrence. What we demand in this war, therefore, is nothing peculiar to ourselves. It is that the world be made fit and safe to live in; and particularly that it be made safe for every peace-loving nation which, like our own, wishes to live its own life, determine its own institutions, be assured of justice and fair dealing by the other peoples of the world as against force and selfish aggression." -President Wilson
"Moreover, this meeting signifies for us the end of this terrible war, which threatened to destroy civilization and the world itself. It is a delightful sensation for us to feel that we are meeting at a moment when this terrible menace has ceased to exist." - President Wilson"