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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... lack of an adequate political organization. Even those who supported Wilson most wholeheartedly believed that his work would lie entirely within the field of domestic reform; little did they imagine that he would play a part in world ...
... lack of an adequate political organization. Even those who supported Wilson most wholeheartedly believed that his work would lie entirely within the field of domestic reform; little did they imagine that he would play a part in world ...
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... lack of tolerance for the failings of his fellow mortals may have combined with his Presbyterian conscience to disgust him with the hard give-and-take of the struggling lawyer's life. He sought escape in graduate work in history and ...
... lack of tolerance for the failings of his fellow mortals may have combined with his Presbyterian conscience to disgust him with the hard give-and-take of the struggling lawyer's life. He sought escape in graduate work in history and ...
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... lacks, furthermore, the power of quick decision which is apt to characterize the masterful executive. He is slow to make up his mind, a trait that results partly, perhaps, from his Scotch blood and partly from his academic training ...
... lacks, furthermore, the power of quick decision which is apt to characterize the masterful executive. He is slow to make up his mind, a trait that results partly, perhaps, from his Scotch blood and partly from his academic training ...
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... lack of abruptness or dogmatism. But he has never been able to capitalize such personal advantages in his political ... lacks completely Roosevelt's capacity to make friends, and there is in him no trace of his predecessor's power to ...
... lack of abruptness or dogmatism. But he has never been able to capitalize such personal advantages in his political ... lacks completely Roosevelt's capacity to make friends, and there is in him no trace of his predecessor's power to ...
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... lacking broad vision, led him into serious errors, most of which—such as his appeal for a Democratic Congress in 1918, his selection of the personnel of the Peace Commission, his refusal to compromise with the "mild reservationist ...
... lacking broad vision, led him into serious errors, most of which—such as his appeal for a Democratic Congress in 1918, his selection of the personnel of the Peace Commission, his refusal to compromise with the "mild reservationist ...
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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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