Woodrow Wilson and the World War: A Chronicle of Our Own TimesThe Floating Press, 1. 7. 2014. - 214 страница From the current vantage point, World War I was but one of a series of global military conflicts that defined the political landscape of the twentieth century. However, in the immediate aftermath of the war, it represented a seismic shift after which nothing would ever be the same again. This probing analysis penned just after the war's end focuses on the key role played by Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the United States. |
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... British critic has put it, "to dig his toes in and hold on." On matters of method, however, where a basic principle is not involved, he is flexible. According as you approve or disapprove of him, he is "capable of development" or ...
... British critic has put it, "to dig his toes in and hold on." On matters of method, however, where a basic principle is not involved, he is flexible. According as you approve or disapprove of him, he is "capable of development" or ...
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... British critic, J. M. Keynes, who describes the President as a Nonconformist minister, whose thought and temperament were essentially theological, not intellectual, "with all the strength and weakness of that manner of thought, feeling ...
... British critic, J. M. Keynes, who describes the President as a Nonconformist minister, whose thought and temperament were essentially theological, not intellectual, "with all the strength and weakness of that manner of thought, feeling ...
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... British cruisers, seemed merely theatrical. It was a tremendous show and we were the spectators. Only the closing of the Stock Exchange lent an air of reality to the crisis. It was true that the Spanish War had made of the United States ...
... British cruisers, seemed merely theatrical. It was a tremendous show and we were the spectators. Only the closing of the Stock Exchange lent an air of reality to the crisis. It was true that the Spanish War had made of the United States ...
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... British dependency, for the British colonies was natural and American interests in the Far East had much in common with those of Great Britain. External evidence of the new place of the United States in the world might be found in the ...
... British dependency, for the British colonies was natural and American interests in the Far East had much in common with those of Great Britain. External evidence of the new place of the United States in the world might be found in the ...
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... against the threatening Slav. Certain of the politically active Irish elements, anxious to discredit the British, also lent their support to the German cause. On the Atlantic coast, however, the general trend of opinion 26.
... against the threatening Slav. Certain of the politically active Irish elements, anxious to discredit the British, also lent their support to the German cause. On the Atlantic coast, however, the general trend of opinion 26.
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Chapter III The Submarine | 33 |
Chapter IV Plots and Preparedness | 48 |
Chapter V America Decides | 62 |
Chapter VI The Nation in Arms | 76 |
Chapter VII The Home Front | 97 |
Chapter VIII The Fighting Front | 123 |
Chapter X Ways of the Peace Conference | 161 |
Chapter XI Balance of Power or League of Nations? | 178 |
Chapter XII The Settlement | 196 |
Chapter XIII The Senate and the Treaty | 208 |
Chapter XIV Conclusion | 222 |
Bibliographical Note | 228 |
Endnotes | 232 |
Chapter IX The Path to Peace | 145 |
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