1. 8-4: Ending the War
While American entry into World War I ensured Allied victory, the failure to conclude a lasting peace left a bitter legacy.

2. Fourteen Points Purpose Key Ideas
Woodrow Wilson’s plan to eliminate the causes of war
Key Ideas
Self-Determination of Nations
Countries should choose their kind of government without any outside interference
Freedom of the Seas
Countries can navigate oceans freely
Mandate System
Small countries administered by world powers
League of Nations
Peacekeeping body designed to resolve issues through diplomacy

3. Treaty of Versailles Punishment of Germany National Boundaries
The French and English insisted on punishment of Germany
Germany was required to pay for the total cost of the war
National Boundaries
Boundaries were redrawn, creating many new nations
League of Nations
Created to try to instill world peace rather than warfare

4. League Debate in the United States
Objections
Isolationists objected to U.S. foreign policy decisions made by an international organization
Constitution—Congress declares war
Disapproval of the Treaty
The Senate failed to approve the Treaty of Versailles
Isolationism
The U.S. pursued an isolationist foreign policy for much of the 1920s and 1930s until the onset of World War II

5. How did visions of the postwar world differ?