HIST 2620 1nd Edition Lecture 17 Outline of Last Lecture I Schlieffen Plan II Battle of Marne III Russian Revolution Outline of Current Lecture II Home front III Wilson s 14 points IV Ho Chi Minh Current Lecture Home Front Violated civil liberties Wilson tried to stamp out any anti war activism Wave of anti German sentiment took away anything that associated with Germans Robert Prager was lynched because he make a positive comment about the Germans and many people did not like that so a mob wanted to lynch him and he had to send a letter to his parents explaining why he was going to die Robert Goldstein produced Spirit of 76 which was about the American Revolutionary War he had to take out the parts that portrayed bad acts of the British a few videos still had the original scenes so we was sent to jail trial he ends back in Germany in the concentration camps Espionage and Sedition Act can t speak out against the country or the draf Wilson s 14 Points Wilson made a plan to create world order peace plan 1 Freedom of the seas stop sea warfare 2 Free trade open door policy These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute 3 Open public diplomacy everyone should know what everyone is going to do 4 International organization League of Nations to resolve disputes 5 Universal self determination let nationalities determine their own country Wilson wanted to decide where everyone was going to stay most controversial secretary of state said to discard it because it would lead to more deaths Wilson goes to Paris for peace convention he favored League of Nations so that is the only plan they approved out of all the points League of Nations senators and Congress did not want to sign the treaty because they were excluded from the making of the plan they didn t want to deal with Europe s problems Wilson gave speeches across the nation to get their support to ratify the treaty he gets sick in Colorado treaty never gets ratified since the most powerful country U S didn t join it was a powerless organization the plan failed Ho Chi Minh leader of Vietnam Vietnamese were under China s control they wanted their independence from China Minh thought that because of universal self determination they could have a chance of becoming independent but they didn t know that it was for only the white nations afer Minh gets training from Russia he declares Vietnamese independence afer WWII
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