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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... opposite poles. During his academic career Wilson seems to have displayed little interest in foreign affairs, and his knowledge of European politics, although sufficient for him to produce an admirable handbook on 18.
... opposite poles. During his academic career Wilson seems to have displayed little interest in foreign affairs, and his knowledge of European politics, although sufficient for him to produce an admirable handbook on 18.
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... foreign as well as our own, was probably not profound. During his first year in the White House, he was typical of the Democratic party, which then approved the political isolation of the United States, abhorred the kind of commercial ...
... foreign as well as our own, was probably not profound. During his first year in the White House, he was typical of the Democratic party, which then approved the political isolation of the United States, abhorred the kind of commercial ...
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... foreign complications seemed remote. The attention of the young nation was directed to domestic concerns, to the building up of manufactures, to the extension of the frontiers westward. The American nation turned its back to the ...
... foreign complications seemed remote. The attention of the young nation was directed to domestic concerns, to the building up of manufactures, to the extension of the frontiers westward. The American nation turned its back to the ...
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... foreign policy besides the European, namely, that concerning the Pacific and the Far East, which, as diplomatic historians have pointed out, does not seem to have been affected by the tradition of isolation. Since the day when the ...
... foreign policy besides the European, namely, that concerning the Pacific and the Far East, which, as diplomatic historians have pointed out, does not seem to have been affected by the tradition of isolation. Since the day when the ...
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... foreign policy vitally. The holding of the Philippines, even if it were to prove merely temporary, created new relations with all the great powers, of Europe as of Asia; American Caribbean interests were strengthened; and the victory ...
... foreign policy vitally. The holding of the Philippines, even if it were to prove merely temporary, created new relations with all the great powers, of Europe as of Asia; American Caribbean interests were strengthened; and the victory ...
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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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