Copy of Treaty of Versailles How did nations work together to build stability and peace after World War I?

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How did nations work together to build stability and peace after World War I? Objectives:​ Describe ​the international efforts to work together to build stability and peace after World War I. ... Make a Prediction: ​At the end of World War I, 8-9 million soldiers died in the battlefield and almost 22 million soldiers were wounded. The question on the minds of many leaders was, “Where do we go from here?” After a war is fought between nations, what do you think should happen next? Why? Peace Settlements Directions: ​Read the excerpt below and respond to the questions. The Signing of Peace in the Hall of Mirrors, Versailles 1919 Image ​is courtesy of wikimedia commons and is in the public domain Considerations for Peace Before the End of the War Before the United States entered the war in 1917, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson delivered his speech, “Peace Without Victory,” to the U.S. Senate. In this speech, he called for an agreed upon and sustainable peace where peace is not “forced upon the loser,” leaving the losers humiliated and resentful. He also said that “it makes a great deal of difference in what way and upon what terms [the war] ended” rather than that the war just ends. Concerned about how the world would emerge from the war, in a January 1918 address to Congress, Wilson proposed a 14-point program for world peace with the first point being, “Open covenants [agreements] of peace, openly arrived at, after which there shall be no private international understandings of any kind but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view.” [Show More]

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