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The Wilson-Lenin Moment
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on September 19, 2018 (go to class or lectures)
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in 1918, Woodrow Wilson arrived in              to help put together a peace that would put an end to all wars
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worried whether the                Revolution could spread
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the victors discussed this peace in the shadow of                and economic troubles
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personal tragedy behind the scenes
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Woodrow Wilson's                  Margaret had gotten the influenza
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came close to            in a hospital in Brussels
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influenza was affecting Wilson's aid, and also French Prime Minister George                     , British Prime Minister Lloyd George
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the world leaders were groping for new                     
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Wilson
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was a                    scientist at Princeton
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governor of New Jersey
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the role                            are playing in thinking about public policy
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these principles were presented in fourteen points
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had a fear that as old regimes would                 , radical new regimes would emerge
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after 1917
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a concern for the contagion of Communism
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Lenin promised an end to war by creating a new                    utopia, for all oppressed people
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there could be no peace without everyone being                            of the new order
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in October of 1917 the old Russian regime                       
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but there was a kind of civil war behind the lines
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Bolcheviks called for the support from different nationalities in what used to be the Russian Empire
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Lenin argued that                      was the source of the problem for minorities
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Lenin's communism was attractive to                 
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the rest of the world had to                to this
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Wilsom saw in Lenin someone who had to be responded to
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14 points
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1918
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what would be the new principles of           
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particularly in Russia and               
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we had to prevent Bolshevism from spreading
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the contagion of                   
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open trade
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open agreement
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self determination
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               democracy
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liberal democracies that can trade with each other won't fight
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Woodrow Wilson's liberal utopia
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the Leninist and Wilsonian models posed a challenge to the Old World of the 19th century
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how to reconcile a world of former               
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1919: the end of empires all broken up into different             -states
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               Empire
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Russian Empire
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German Empire
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Austria-Hungarian Empire
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former colonies would enjoy sovereignty
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but how to govern these
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many were not ready for         -government
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became                            of the winning side
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Wilson was an optimist and                 
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but he had blind spots
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disappointed in his own allies inability to share in his                     
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British and French quarreling
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             insistence that Germany pay a heavy penalty
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Wilson saw this as           
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faced with national interests
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Wilson had a series of                toward the end of his presidency
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downplayed it
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the 30 years of world war
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1914-1918 was the first phase
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the Treaty of Versailles was a           , not a peace
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it only put a                    end to the conflicts of Europe itself
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planted seeds of future                   
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1919-1944 second phase

Ideas and Concepts:

Via this morning's History Since 1300 class:

"A reminder of the days when America was tough and ethical enough to bully other countries with right principles, a review of Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points which he regarded as the basis of an enduring world peace after World War I:

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

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.

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

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

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 government whose title is to be determined.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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."
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