LECTURE 9: THE PEACE SETTLEMENT AND THE LEAGUE

Lecture Outline

1. American war aims.
2. The Versailles Conference (1919).
3. The fight for the League.

Important Information, Terms, and Names from this Lecture

Pres. Woodrow Wilson
The New Republic (1914)
"self-determinism"
"The world must be made safe for democracy."
Fourteen Points (1918)
"free trade"
Veterans' Day
German reparations - $33 billion
"trusteeship"
Namibia
League of Nations (1919)
Versailles Treaty (1919)
Sen. William E. Borah (R-Idaho)
Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge (R-Massachusetts)
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Pres. William Howard Taft
Monroe Doctrine (1823)
Article 10
Pres. Warren G. Harding

History 101 Syllabus