Sunday, February 24, 2008

Wilson's 14

Wilson's fourteen points after World War I were completely unrealistic and out of the question to almost all of the other countries that took part in the war. They may have been the best solution to keeping the nations out of any future wars, but at the time, these demands were hard to grasp by the nations much more devastated by the Great War. France was bent on receiving its reperations from Germany so as to pay for the damage caused by war on its own soil. Britain was against any admittance of freedom of seas because it hoped to retain its tion of the seas after thge demise of the German Unterseeboats (U-boats). Most importantly, Wilson's last point, the creation of the League of Nations, was inaccessible at the time due to the stubbornness of the nations as well as the very few world powers at the time. A small group of countries in the League of Nations would have created a sort of international empire prone to destroying the growth of threatening nations.

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