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How Did Woodrow Wilson Get Into The Treaty Of Versailles

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The chief people of the Allied Powers of WWI wrote the Treaty of Versailles, which included U.S President Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau of France, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando of Italy, and the British Prime Minister Lloyd George. President Woodrow Wilson was the 28th president born in Virginia in 1856 to a Presbyterian minister. Furthermore, Wilson had witnessed the unpleasantness of War growing up due to the Civil War, Wilson earned his degrees from the College of New Jersey and the University of Virginia Law School, and then earned a doctorate from the John Hopkins University. After becoming president, he was the leader in the progressive movement by creating a policy of neutrality from the start of WWI, however Wilson led the U.S into …show more content…

During the time period when this treaty was signed, WWI was coming to an end on November 11, 1918 at 11 am, the gunfire had ended which gave worldwide relief especially to the victorious countries. A truce had been made between the opposing sides to stop fighting which spread news across Europe, yet the truce was done several times before actually signing the Treaty of Versailles. This was mainly due to the German Army having a collapse that would lead to an armistice in which the group of Allies “led by Supreme Allied Commander Marshal Ferdinand Foch, largely ignored United States President Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points for Peace and left no room for negotiation” (“Armistice”). Meaning that the German Army had collapsed, yet the group of Allies had an agreement to stop fighting and ignored the U.S.’s policy for neutrality and progressive reform without negotiating about …show more content…

The Treaty of Versailles involved self-determination, which was a huge component that involved nationalism because the place where the Balkans were at had lots of uncertainty and nationalism about war and an unpleasant perspective about self-determination. A document of the time that was similar to the Treaty of Versailles was the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye which officially ended the war for Austria-Hungary and the allied associated countries. The Treaty of Saint Germain was composed of multiple drafts in order to spread across Austria-Hungary and its allies. The treaty was impactful because it approved the closing down of the Austrian state, yet the Austrian National Assembly still abided with the terms of the treaty although still protesting over various conditions and especially the territorial

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