How did the goals of the key Allied leaders shape the postwar world order?
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
a. As expressed in the Fourteen Points, the American president Woodrow Wilson envisioned a postwar world order in which the principle of self-determination was the basis of territorial adjustments.
b. In this regard, Austria-Hungary was broken up into separate countries.
c. Wilson also called for a world government; this was realized in the League of Nations.
d. The leaders of Britain and France wanted to punish Germany.
e. The punitive treaty given to Germany fostered German resentment of the postwar order.
f. The leader of Italy wanted more territory and was dissatisfied with what Italy received.
g. Britain and France were also eager for more territory and used the League of Nations mandate system to control the former territories of the Ottoman Empire.
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