Primary Source Deep Dive: 14 Points of Peace Primary Source Analysis Part 1 Directions: Below is a word cloud made up of all the words from the 14 Points of Peace. The words that are the largest are repeated the most often. Below the word cloud, list the 15 largest words you see. When you are done, using the 15 words, predict & write a two sentence summary of the 14 Points of Peace, based on the words you see here. 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) 9) 10)
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Primary Source Analysis Part 2 Directions: Prior to analyzing the 14 Points of Peace, rewrite them in your own words! In the table below, in the left hand column are Wilson s exact words. Read them first. In the right hand column re-write each of the Fourteen Points of Peace in your OWN words. Text of Primary Source Your Translation I. Open covenants [agreement] 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. II. Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in war... III. The removal, so far as possible, of all economic barriers and the establishment of an equality of trade conditions among all the nations consenting to the peace... IV. Adequate guarantees given and taken that national armaments [military weapons] will be reduced to the lowest point consistent with domestic safety. V. A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, based upon a strict observance of the principle that in determining all such questions of sovereignty [authority] - the interests of the populations concerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the government whose title is to be determined. VI. The evacuation of all Russian territory and such a settlement of all questions affecting Russia as will secure the best and freest cooperation of the other nations of the world in obtaining for her an unhampered and unembarrassed opportunity for the independent determination of her own political development... VII. Belgium, the whole world will agree, must be evacuated and restored, without any attempt to limit the sovereignty [freedom and authority] which she enjoys in common with all other free nations... VIII. All French territory should be freed and the invaded portions restored, and the wrong done Point 1: Point 2: Point 3: Point 4: Point 5: Point 6: Point 7: Point 8:
to France by Prussia in 1871 in the matter of Alsace-Lorraine, which has unsettled the peace of the world for nearly fifty years, should be righted, in order that peace may once more be made secure in the interest of all. IX. A readjustment of the frontiers of Italy should be effected along clearly recognizable lines of nationality. X. The peoples of Austria-Hungary, whose place among the nations we wish to see safeguarded and assured, should be accorded the freest opportunity to autonomous [independent] development. XI. Rumania, Serbia, and Montenegro should be evacuated; occupied territories restored; Serbia accorded free and secure access to the sea;... and international guarantees of the political and economic independence and territorial integrity of the several Balkan states should be entered into. XII. The Turkish portion of the present Ottoman Empire should be assured a secure sovereignty [freedom and authority], but the other nationalities which are now under Turkish rule should be assured an undoubted security of life and an absolutely unmolested opportunity of autonomous [self-government] development... XIII. An independent Polish state should be erected which should include the territories inhabited by indisputably Polish populations, which should be assured a free and secure access to the sea, and whose political and economic independence and territorial integrity should be guaranteed by international covenant [agreement]. XIV. A general association of nations must be formed under specific covenants [agreement] for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike. Point 9: Point 10: Point 11: Point 12: Point 13: Point 14:
Primary Source Analysis Part 3 Directions: The 14 Points of Peace were part of a speech that President Wilson delivered prior to the end of World War 1. The points were meant to establish and ensure that another global conflict wouldn't erupt, as well as resolving the issues that led to the war in the first place. How well do these 14 points connect to the causes of World War 1? Using a concept map similar to the one below, connect EACH of the 14 points to one of the five main causes of the first world war. See the example below.
Primary Source Deep Dive: 14 Points of Peace Directions: Using information from the document above, please respond to the following task. Task: Using the information from the documents above and your knowledge of US History to respond to the following task: In a 1-2 page written response, please answer the following prompt: To what extent did President Wilson s 14 Points of Peace address the five main causes of World War 1? Explain the causes of World War 1 Evaluate to what extent these 14 points would ensure sustainable & lasting peace, preventing another global conflict explain means to make plain or understandable; to give reasons for or causes of; to show the logical development or relationships of evaluate means to examine and judge the significance, worth, or condition of; to determine the value of