Syllabus of the Background and Issues of the World WarMissouri book Company, 1918 - 142 páginas |
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Syllabus of the Background and Issues of the World War Norman Maclaren Trenholme Vista completa - 1918 |
Syllabus of the Background and Issues of the World War Norman Maclaren Trenholme Vista completa - 1918 |
Syllabus of the Background and Issues of the World War Norman Maclaren Trenholme Vista completa - 1918 |
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Abdul Hamid II Alliance allies Alsace-Lorraine American attitude Austria Austria-Hungary Bagdad Railway Balkan Belgian Belgium Bismarck's Britain British Bulgaria character colonial expansion Concert of Europe conflict Congress of Berlin Contemporary History countries cratic Cyclopedia Czecho-Slovak democracy democratic desire diplomatic Discuss domination Duma dynastic economic Entente ernment Europe since 1815 export foreign France French Revolution German Empire Germany's Hayes Hazen History of Europe Hohenzollern ideals ideas important influence interests issues Italian Italy Jugo-Slav kingdom liberal nationalism ment militaristic Modern and Contemporary Modern European History monarchy Monroe Doctrine Montenegro movement Napoleon national imperialism neutrality Pan-Germanism Pan-Slavic party Poland Political and Social population races reactionary READING REFERENCES reform regard rulers Rumania Russia Schapiro Seignobos Serbia Serbo-Croats settlement Slav Social History STUDY AND READING STUDY PROBLEMS Summary and conclusions territory Teutonic tion tional trade transportation treaty Triple Entente Turkey Turkish United Young Turk
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Página 136 - The settlement of every question, whether of territory, of sovereignty, of economic arrangement, or of political relationship, upon the basis of the free acceptance of that settlement by the people immediately concerned, and not upon the basis of the material interest or advantage of any other nation or people which may desire a different settlement for the sake of its own exterior influence or mastery.
Página 134 - 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.
Página 134 - A readjustment of the frontiers of Italy should be effected along clearly recognizable lines of nationality. 10. The peoples of Austria-Hungary, whose place among the nations we wish to see safeguarded and assured, should be accorded the freest opportunity of autonomous development. 11. Rumania, Serbia, and Montenegro should be evacuated; occupied territories restored; Serbia accorded free and secure access to the sea; and the relations of the several Balkan states to one another determined by friendly...
Página 133 - French territory should be freed and the invaded portions restored, and the wrong done 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. 9. A readjustment of the frontiers of Italy should be effected along clearly recognizable lines of nationality.
Página 132 - Adequate guarantees given and taken that national armaments will be reduced to the lowest point consistent with domestic safety. 5. 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 the interests of the populations concerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the government whose...
Página 136 - These are the ends for which the associated peoples of the world are fighting and which must be conceded them before there can be peace : I. The destruction of every arbitrary power anywhere that can separately, secretly, and of its single choice disturb the peace of the world; or, if it cannot be presently destroyed, at the least its reduction to virtual impotence.
Página 142 - First, the sanctity of treaties must be re-established; secondly, a territorial settlement must be secured, based on the right of self-determination or the consent of the governed; and, lastly, we must seek, by the creation of some international organization, to limit the burden of armaments and diminish the probability of war.
Página 133 - ... an unhampered and unembarrassed opportunity for the independent determination of her own political development and national policy and assure her of a sincere welcome into the society of free nations under institutions of her own choosing; and, more than a welcome, assistance also of every kind that she may need and may herself desire.
Página 132 - Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in war, except as the seas may be closed in whole or in part by international action for the enforcement of international covenants.
Página 132 - 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 and associating themselves for its maintenance.