Today's Test

I know that today's test question was a particularly difficult one, and I am glad you guys all buckled down and just did your best.

If you would like to write a timed essay on one of the other two questions for extra credit you can. Here are the guidelines:

1) It must be done in my presence, so before school, after school or on your lunch.

2) It must be done by next Friday (which means you will have to decide BEFORE you get your grade on the essay you took today).

3) You may choose which of the other two essays you would like to write.

4) I will enter the second essay as another score out of 100 points into your grade rather than add points directly into your current grade.

Wilson's Fourteen Points

Wilson proposal to make international interaction more peaceful and productive was much easier said than done. Countries just getting out a war of that magnitude were not going to be too willing to cooperate with the people they were just trying to destroy. Most, if not all of Wilson's points could not be achieved without the mutual cooperation of all the powers. During the time period Communism started to gain momentum and the European nations were distrustful of foreign intervention in their countries. Wilson seemed to have to give up all his points so that he could build up the League of Nations. The League of Nations was supposed to do what it could to prevent war but because it was made up of powers that all wanted parts of the same land, it could not be neutral towards the Axis-powers. To achieve world peace Wilson would have had to have the backup and consent of the more powerful nations and because he did not his ideas for creating world peace were not realistic.

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.

Wilson's Fourteen Points: Realistic or Not?

Wilson’s fourteen points are somewhat realistic for creating world peace because in order to achieve such a state there needs to be cooperation and dependence throughout the world but the different ideological differences would drive the countries apart. Wilson proposes the fact of establishing the freedom of trade which would connect all the countries in the world together and there would not be any need for attacking a fellow country. By having equal trade, there would be no alliances between countries and there would be more cooperation between countries. His principles of self determination, however, would only cause more disagreements between countries because the same ideologies of democracy, for example, would not be present everywhere. Different type of government would mean different policies about trade and development, which can cause other countries great disconcert. The hunger for power and world domination could of course also stand in the way of peace.

follow-up on the controversy

are we allowed to use our outlines for the essay test tomorrow? or are we supposed to study all three of them for a random question you picked out?

Wilson

Wilsons points were optimistically unrealistic. He tried being kind to a country that he and the allies had just beat the crap out of. Nice. And he gives them territory French territory. He really ended up annoying the allies and doing the Germans a favour. Maybe he was a spy.
I suppose it was a bit of a lose-lose situation for him though. Help out the Germans with a League of Nations and less war debts, and get their French on their backs, or bombard the Germans with war debts and get Hitler riled up.

The Accuracy of Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points

The 14 Points, as created by Woodrow Wilson, was as unrealistic before, as now, and as in the future due to the literal perspective of it, by which is the whole other people's opinion of this so-called "peace render". The purpose of this amendment is to provide a means of universal tranquility among all nations and to provide a domestic security within them. This is to the most extent the worst form of truth ever brought out, as there are always countries fighting (recounting the point of disposition between Allies and the Axis of the time period), always land or property to fight over, and always vengeance and blood to shed. Death is inevitable because no one can make a universal utopia at the snap of fingers nor would anyone else in the world would care of it. These 14 Points are unrealistic to the extent that it requires everyone to follow and approve of it as much as possibly can so that it would "make a better world". Despite Wilson's effort, the 14 Points are unrealistic and unfollowable due to the tensions and lust of vengeance between fighting countries. This would influence the rest of the world and the rest of the time period to not become persuaded by this unnecessary and scoffed-at ordeal.