How did Wilson and fourteen points influence the treaty of Versailles?

Answer 1

Answer this question… It failed to set guidelines for retribution payments from the Central Powers.

Answer 2

The plan helped to contribute to the Treaty of Versailles because 4 of the original points were later recognized in the plan itself. However it was generally speaking -- a failure in that the treaty was rejected by the US Senate. Specifically, Wilson had 14 points he publicly announced.

1) Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after which there shall be no private international understandings of any kind but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view.

This didn't happen. It went against about 10,000 year of diplomatic history. The British and French went right along making private understandings even as the conference was going on.

2) Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in war, except as the seas may be closed in whole or in part by international action for the enforcement of international covenants.

This didn't go over big either. Naval power was the Britain's thing. Their ability to cut an enemy off from the sea was key to their military strategy.

3) The removal, so far as possible, of all economic barriers and the establishment of equality of trade conditions among all the nations consenting to the peace and associating themselves for its maintenance.

Basically free trade. America was the most biggest and most powerful export economy in the world. In any free trade situation of the time, specially after the hit European economies took during the war, America would dominate Britain, France, and others saw this as a plot to turn them into economic dependencies of the US.

4) Adequate guarantees given and taken that national armaments will be reduced to the lowest point consistent with domestic safety.

Basically, nations would reduce their armies to bare minimum. Again, this went against British and French interests. They empires to maintain. It was all well and good for America. We have two giant oceans on either side. Canada hasn't been a threat since 1815. Mexico. Hasn't been a threat since 1848. We had slaughtered 99% of the Indians. We could disarm without fear.

5) A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, based upon a strict observance of the principle that in determining all such questions of sovereignty the interests of the populations concerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the government whose title is to be determined.

Decolonization. The British Empire covered 1/4 of the world. No British Politician in his right mind would just give it up. The French Empire was big but mostly for show. Still, they were keeping theirs.

6) The evacuation of all Russian territory and such a settlement of all questions affecting Russia as will secure the best and freest cooperation of the other nations of the world in obtaining for her an unhampered and unembarrassed opportunity for the independent determination of her own political development and national policy and assure her of a sincere welcome into the society of free nations under institutions of her own choosing; and, more than a welcome, assistance also of every kind that she may need and may herself desire. The treatment accorded Russia by her sister nations in the months to come will be the acid test of their good will, of their comprehension of her needs as distinguished from their own interests, and of their intelligent and unselfish sympathy.

The communist takeover in Russia killed this idea.

7) Belgium, the whole world will agree, must be evacuated and restored, without any attempt to limit the sovereignty which she enjoys in common with all other free nations. No other single act will serve as this will serve to restore confidence among the nations in the laws which they have themselves set and determined for the government of their relations with one another. Without this healing act the whole structure and validity of international law is forever impaired.

This one he got mostly because that was Britain's stated aim in coming into the war.

8) All French territory should be freed and the invaded portions restored, and the wrong done to France by Prussia in 1871 in the matter of Alsace-Lorraine, which has unsettled the peace of the world for nearly fifty years, should be righted, in order that peace may once more be made secure in the interest of all.

This one he got because that was a main French war aim.

9) A readjustment of the frontiers of Italy should be effected along clearly recognizable lines of nationality.

Did not happen. The ethnic Italian territories Italy wanted went to Yugoslavia. This bitterness was one of forces that brought the Fascists to power a few years latter.

10) The peoples of Austria-Hungary, whose place among the nations we wish to see safeguarded and assured, should be accorded the freest opportunity to autonomous development.

Didn't happen either. The British and French drew the lines on the map to create Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and others as would best help Anglo-French security.

11) Romania, Serbia, and Montenegro should be evacuated; occupied territories restored; Serbia accorded free and secure access to the sea; and the relations of the several Balkan states to one another determined by friendly counsel along historically established lines of allegiance and nationality; and international guarantees of the political and economic independence and territorial integrity of the several Balkan states should be entered into.

Except for the fact that occupied territories were restored, same problem as number 10.

12) The Turkish portion of the present Ottoman Empire should be assured a secure sovereignty, but the other nationalities which are now under Turkish rule should be assured an undoubted security of life and an absolutely unmolested opportunity of autonomous development, and the Dardanelles should be permanently opened as a free passage to the ships and commerce of all nations under international guarantees.

British and French squashed most of this. They divided Arabic parts of Ottoman territory between themselves. France got Syria and Lebanon. Britain got everything else. The Dardanelles part was agreed to.

13) An independent Polish state should be erected which should include the territories inhabited by indisputably Polish populations, which should be assured a free and secure access to the sea, and whose political and economic independence and territorial integrity should be guaranteed by international covenant.

He got this one. The problem is that the borders were so badly drawn that it guaranteed friction between Poland and her neighbors. There was a Polish-Soviet war in the 1920's and of course, World War II in Europe started in Poland.

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

This the League of Nations. It was the predecessor to the United Nations. He got this and it was formed. However, it made Americans freak. The idea of being permanently linked and subordinate to a intentional organization went against 150 years of American tradition.

Even today, we have difficulty with it. Most people think that the five permanent members of the UN Security Council have vetoes was a condition to get the Soviets to join. It was, but Roosevelt also knew that it was necessary to get the US Senate to approve the UN treaty. American pride would not allow joining the UN without a special guarantee of American sovereignty.

Wilson was his own worst enemy. One historian described it as an outgrowth of his Southern fundamentalist Presbyterian upbringing. He believed God was on his side, and if God is on your side, you don't compromise.

He was stubborn and full of his own sense of righteousness. The Republicans controlled the Senate. However, Wilson refused to take any high ranking Republican Senators to the Peace Conference. The Republicans looked on this as a sub to them especially after they had been very supportive and bi-partisan during the war. This was not malicious on Wilson's part. It was part of his personality. He was the President. He was on a mission from God. The Senators should understand that. Despite being a Democrat, Wilson's attitude and manner was surprisingly like George W. Bush.

This also led Wilson to try and negotiate all the big decisions himself instead of using veteran diplomats who were familiar with the British and French. In Wilson's view, these "old school" diplomats were part of the problem with international relations he was trying to fix. He would negotiate a new way, his way. He was a very well educated man, possibly the best formally educated President to that time. The first with a PhD. He felt his study and theory of government made him ready to reform the system.

However, you put the world's smartest chicken in with a lion and you get instant McNuggets. The British and French played him. He was up against Lloyd George of Britain and Clemenceau of France. These were easily two of the most crafty leaders either country had produced. He didn't stand a chance.

Answer 3

Answer this question…It set the stage for future war rather than ensuring longstanding peace.

Answer 4

i have no clue sorry people:)

to be or not to be

This would lead the members of the League of Nations to believe that the Treaty of Versailles to be changed

Answer 5

Its impact you idiot

seriously. Get it right. Dikhead