Answer to Question #293345 in History for Kelsey Jand

Question

Wilson’s Fourteen Points of Peace

Instructions: Read the text of Wilson’s original fourteen points. Then, briefly write the main idea in your own words. Then identify which cause of WWI this connects to - Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, or Nationalism?

14) A general association of nations must be formed under specific covenants [agreement] for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.

Requirements:

1. Read the text above.
2. Write the main idea of the text.
3. Identify which causes of WWI this connects to - Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, or Nationalism. (Pick one.)

Answer 1

The principle of a league of nations as the primary essential of a permanent peace has been so clearly presented by President Wilson in his speech of Sept. 27, 1918, that no further elucidation is required. It is the foundation of the whole diplomatic structure of permanent peace. On October 3–4, 1918, Prince Maximilian of Baden, the German imperial chancellor, sent a note, via Switzerland, to President Wilson, requesting an immediate armistice and the opening of peace negotiations on the basis of the Fourteen Points. Germans would later argue a “betrayal” when faced by the harsher terms of the Armistice and the Treaty of Versailles.