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he was very disappointed with it because his ideas diverged from the ideas of the allied powers 

the document should have made relationships between winner and losers of the war (especially Germany) 

he thought that Germany should not have paid war reparations/damages 

unlike important French politicians, Wilson was against this rush conclusions to humiliate Germany even if they 
lost because he was aware of a potential danger which may happen = a war of revenge one day 

he was aware of the fact that people were living in empires (Russia, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire) 
and the doctrine should have dismantled (odstranit) the empires and new countries/borders should appear 
according to

 self-determination = the process by which a group of people forms their own state and 

chooses their own government (with the end of the 1st WW the age of empires is over and he considered that if 
people are determined to be separated they should be given freedom to do so) 

this principle of national independence changed the map of Europe 

foundation of new countries (Czechoslovakia, Poland, Yugoslavia, Serbia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) 

new borders appeared (Italy, Austria, Hungary, Romania) 

1919 – The Treaty of Versailles 

Germany was blamed for the war 

Germany should have paid war reparations/damages for the destructions made during the WWI 

Germany lost a part of its territory that was returned to France 

the German army was restricted to 100 000 men, the general staff was eliminated 

Germany was imposed to limit the development of the war industry (armoured cars, tanks, submarines, 

airplanes, and poison gas was forbidden) 

Woodrow Wilson (28th President)

(1913 – 1921) 

AFTER the 1st WORLD WAR and BETWEEN the WARS 

1919 – League of Nations 

international organisation with a seat in Geneva which was meant to maintain peace 

main aim: to preserve peace and to prevent from breaking out of another World War 

the League should have ensured the cooperation between countries