Fourteen Points Themes

Even at the time, people recognized that Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points were a break from the past (source). Wilson imagined a world in which countries would treat each other fairly, like colleag...

When Wilson drops the words "conquest and aggrandizement" (Intro.2), he's talking about imperialism. It's pretty hard to define that word, but Wilson's two-part phrase gets the job done. Basically,...

Since Woodrow Wilson's time, American leaders have dreamed of making democracy spread across the world. Ever heard of Vietnam? Or the war in Iraq? In both cases, the United States intervened to try...

There's no question that the world's most powerful nations suffered during World War I. France, Britain, Germany, and Russia collectively lost millions of people from fighting and disease. But what...