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President Wilson's "Fourteen Points" speech in 1918 set a new vision for global peace during World War I. He proposed open diplomacy, free trade, disarmament, and self-determination of nations. His ideas influenced the Treaty of Versailles and inspired the formation of the League of Nations. Created by Sal Khan. Questions.
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- 3:33 What does the idiom 'touch to the quick' mean?It's derived from an old saying 'cut to the quick' which means - to get to the most vital part of a thing. 'Quick' being the inner part of a finger...
- Why didn't the Treaty of Versailles get ratified in America? Sal mentioned this several times ( 14:1...It wasn't ratified because of political differences and people being stupid in general. There were some that wanted to embarrass Woodrow Wilson and...
- How is "Brest Lotovich" supposed to be pronounced (I get the impression that Sal isn't saying it rig...Brest-Litovsk is (approximately) pronounced "BREAST lit-OFSK". The current name of this southwestern Belarusian town is simply Brest (Belarusian: Б...
- So the Fourteen Points was made before WWI ended?Yes in January 1918, a few months before the actual fighting ended(November 1918) and a more than a year before it officially ended with the treaty...
- How do historians deal with the cognitive dissonance between Wilson's 14 points"idealism" and his su...We are all, Anna, bundles of contradictions. Wilson turns out to have been both an idealist and a monster at the same time. There are men in this w...
- If Austria-Hungary kicked off WWI by declaring war on Serbia, why did the Treaty of Versailles exact...I'd consider the immediate break-up of Austria-Hungary among 9 different countries (now 13) a severe consequence. The video on the Turkish war of i...
- 6:31, did the American public share Woodrow Wilson's ideas of anti-colonialism? At that time, what w...Good question. U.S. Imperialism (territories, colonies, protectorates) has always been a subject that divided American people. One side tends to fa...
- What was happening with Austria-Hungary? I'm mainly hearing about Germany on the Western front. I fi...There were also many Austro-Hungarian divisions tied up in Serbia and trying to hold off the Russian Hordes in the northeast. (Not to mention those...
- Point 5 seems quite ironic to me! If the US really believed this concept, wouldn't they then return ...You make an excellent point. I think the difference, though, was that the "colonies" of other nations were governed as "colonies", but those of the...
- At 5:54 where did this no.3 about free trade come from? All other points concern military, diplomacy...Before WWI, the U.S. was trading military supplies with France. The German U-boats sunk all ships. This was an underlying cause of WWI and the main...
Mar 1, 2020 · Viewers saw a happy-go-lucky funnyman, but off-camera, he was a deeply tortured soul. “Flip was always haunted by his childhood,” Kevin Cook, author of Flip: The Inside Story of TV’s First ...
Dec 2, 2021 · This legendary 92-year-old biologist has some advice for saving Earth. E.O. Wilson, who was considered a modern-day Darwin, wanted you to go out and look for new species. In an interview with Vox ...
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Wilson's Legacy. Woodrow Wilson, 1922. Courtesy: Library of Congress. On March 3, 1921, Woodrow Wilson relinquished the White House to conservative Warren Harding. Wilson accompanied the president ...
Oct 28, 2022 · Oct. 28, 2022 3:18 PM PT. NASHVILLE —. Lainey Wilson’s first paying gig as a singer was the grand opening of a convenience store in her tiny hometown of Baskin, La. She was 9 years old, and ...
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Jan 31, 2024 · Melinda Wilson, Wife and ‘Savior’ of the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson, Dies at 77. Melinda Wilson, whose love story with husband Brian Wilson was portrayed in the biopic “Love and Mercy ...
Dec 15, 2007 · George Crile investigates. In the early summer of 1980, the Texas Congressman Charlie Wilson walked off the floor of the House of Representatives into the Speaker's Lobby. A Teletype at one end ...
