Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points
TOPIC 1: PEACE MAKING
1.1 Wilson and the fourteen points
The United States: * Woodrow Wilson gave a speech to Congress in January 1918 in which he presented his aims for a peace settlement. These aims became known as Wilson's 14 points. * The aims were idealistic. Wilson wanted to create world peace by eliminating what he thought had caused the war. * Freedom of navigation * Democracy and national self-determination * Free trade * Stop treaties that were being made in secrecy * General disarmament * Create the League of Nations * Wilson wanted to make Germany pay to some extent for causing the war and establish a period of probation after which Germany would be able to join the League …show more content…
* The Arabs in the Middle East where also very unhappy about the mandate system as they wanted land and independent status which they were not given despite the fact that they helped the UK conquer the Ottoman Empire
Another controversy emerged when the British decided to go ahead with the Balfour Declaration of 1917
1.4 Enforcement of the provisions of the treaties: US isolationism, the retreat from the Anglo-American Guarantee, Disarmament-Washington, London and Geneva Conferences
1.4.1 Problems with Enforcing of the Treaties * The United States never joined the League of Nations which weakened the League * The Anglo-American guarantee never happened * Germany was angry as it thought the Treaty of Versailles was unfair and harsh and so wanted the treaty revoked * Italy was angry as it was on the winning side, however it did not receive much territory and so the Italians wanted to revise the treaty in favour of Italy * Japan was only interested in issues concerning itself and not the issues concerned with the European aspects of the peace settlement * The United States retreated into isolationism * The USSR was isolated throughout the1920's (with the exception of the Treaty of Rapallo with
1.1 Wilson and the fourteen points
The United States: * Woodrow Wilson gave a speech to Congress in January 1918 in which he presented his aims for a peace settlement. These aims became known as Wilson's 14 points. * The aims were idealistic. Wilson wanted to create world peace by eliminating what he thought had caused the war. * Freedom of navigation * Democracy and national self-determination * Free trade * Stop treaties that were being made in secrecy * General disarmament * Create the League of Nations * Wilson wanted to make Germany pay to some extent for causing the war and establish a period of probation after which Germany would be able to join the League …show more content…
* The Arabs in the Middle East where also very unhappy about the mandate system as they wanted land and independent status which they were not given despite the fact that they helped the UK conquer the Ottoman Empire
Another controversy emerged when the British decided to go ahead with the Balfour Declaration of 1917
1.4 Enforcement of the provisions of the treaties: US isolationism, the retreat from the Anglo-American Guarantee, Disarmament-Washington, London and Geneva Conferences
1.4.1 Problems with Enforcing of the Treaties * The United States never joined the League of Nations which weakened the League * The Anglo-American guarantee never happened * Germany was angry as it thought the Treaty of Versailles was unfair and harsh and so wanted the treaty revoked * Italy was angry as it was on the winning side, however it did not receive much territory and so the Italians wanted to revise the treaty in favour of Italy * Japan was only interested in issues concerning itself and not the issues concerned with the European aspects of the peace settlement * The United States retreated into isolationism * The USSR was isolated throughout the1920's (with the exception of the Treaty of Rapallo with