HIST 2620 1nd Edition Lecture 17 Outline of Last Lecture I. Schlieffen PlanII. Battle of MarneIII. Russian Revolution Outline of Current Lecture II. Home frontIII. Wilson’s 14 pointsIV. Ho Chi MinhCurrent LectureHome 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 drafWilson’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 moredeaths-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 thetreaty; he gets sick in Colorado; treaty never gets ratified; since the most powerful country (U.S.) didn’t join it was apowerless organization; the plan failedHo 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
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