CHAPTER FIVE: THE AFTERMATH & LIBERAL INTERNATIONALISM

Roughly nine months after the United States made the decision to enter the war President Woodrow Wilson, in an effort to end the dispute and establish terms for peace, delivered a speech to the United States Congress. The discourse, commonly known as The Fourteen Points, was based on research conducted by a study group established …

CHAPTER FOUR: “THE WAR TO END ALL WARS”

By the turn of the century, US military strength and political dominance had reached a level of prestige which many nations hesitated to challenge. Referring to a statement from chapter one, the geographic isolation of the United States allowed the nation to remain relatively separate from the immediate effects of European power politics and reach …