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A 9 page paper which examines why the new world order set up at Versailles, France and Washington D.C. in 1919 collapsed by 1942. Bibliography lists 13 sources.
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than peace" (Ewers, 2002, p. 44). World War I had particularly devastated Europe, so the victors - Great Britain, France, the United States and Italy - assembled in France
along with representatives of other world nations in January of 1919 to set up the conditions all hoped would bring peace in a postwar world (Ewers, 2002). The chief
creator of this plan was American President and liberal visionary Woodrow Wilson, who maintained that America had a moral obligation to oversee "the reconstruction of the world order" (Steigerwald, 1999).
According to Wilson, the only way to ensure peace was to establish a League of Nations, which would produce a treaty that would describe terms for peace while at
the same time establish financial reparations for the costly war (Walsh, 1998). The Treaty of Versailles, which was also the ultimate
articulation of Wilsonianism, served to both promote Americas interest abroad through its emphasis on capitalism and also placed public and financial blame on Germany for initiating World War I (Gavin,
1997). The result was the creation of a new world order, where membership was essentially exclusively reserved for the three-perceived international powerhouses - Great Britain, France, and now the
United States. Through the plan, the U.S. and Europe would dominate the global economic landscape, Belgium would become an independent nation, the Alsace-Lorraine province would be returned to France,
and would empower the League of Nations with the authority to settle international discord before it could escalate into another war (Dinkins, 2002). For Germany, the most humiliating part
of the Treaty of Versailles was Article 231, which read, "The Allied and Associated Governments affirm and Germany accepts the responsibility of Germany and her allies for causing all the
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