Transcript Section 4

WHAT WERE WILSON’S POINTS?
• 1. OPEN TREATIES
• 2. FREEDOM OF THE SEAS
• 3. TARIFFS LOWERED OR ABOLSIHED TO
ENCOURAGE FREE TRADE
• 4. ARMS REDUCTION
• 5. CONSIDERATION OF THE INTERESTS OF
COLONIAL PEOPLES
WHAT WERE WILSON’S POINTS?
• 6-13. BOUNDARY CHANGES AND SELF
DETERMINATION OF ETHNIC/NATIONAL
GROUPS
• 14. A LEAGUE OF NATIONS
15. WHAT TERMS OF THE TREATY
SPECIFICALLY AFFECTED GERMANY?
• DEMILITARIZATION:
• RETURN OF ALSACE-LORRAINE TO FRANCE;
• $33 BILLION IN REPARATIONS; WAR GUILT
CLAUSE
16. WHAT WERE THE WEAKNESESS
OF THE TREATY?
• HUMILIATED GERMANY;
• SET GERMANS AGAINST THE TREATY;
• SET REPARATIONS GERMANY COULDN’T
POSSIBLY PAY;
• IGNORED THE SACRAFICES AND DESITRES OF
RUSSIA
• STRIPPED GERMANY OF THE COLONIES IT
NEEDED TO PAY REPARATIONS
• IGNORED THE CLAIMS OF COLONIZED PEOPLES
FOR SELF-DETERMINATION
17. WHY DID HENRY CABOT LODGE
OBJECT TO THE TREATY?
• SUSPICIOUS OF THE PROVISION FOR JOINT
ACTION AGAINST AGGRESSION
• WANTED THE TREATY TO DECLARE THE
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT OF CONGRESS TO
DECLARE WAR
18. HOW DID WILSON HELP BRING
ABOUT THE SENATE’S REJECTION OF
THE TREATY
• CHOSE AN AMERICAN DELEGATION THAT
FAILED TO INCLUDE ENOUGH REPUBLICANS
AND SENATORS;
• REFUSED TO COMPROMISE WITH LODGE
19. WHAT CIRCUMSTANCES AT THIS
TIME WOULD EVENTUALLY LEAD MANY
GERMANS TO SUPPORT ADOLF HITLER?
• POLITICAL INSTABILITY AND VIOLENCE
• RESENTMENT OVER GERMANY’S TREATMENT
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