Woodrow Wilson and the Versailles Treaty
Power hungry individuals and merchants surrounded the environment behind conflicts in the past. Several treaties and personal organizations made on how to divide the world into areas of interest. Wilson’s liberal philosophy and sanguine rhetoric remains blurred if at any chance they could endure the devoted veracities of peacemaking. Wilson Woodrow is considered as one of the shapers of the world as it is today, the Versailles treaty brought to an end of conflicts only to start another because of the greed and personal interests.
Wilson’s wartime rhetoric inspired the colonialist by inflicting hope for social and economic justice. His rhetoric of keeping the world safe for democracy inspired the colonial people (Tindall et al. 13). That rhetoric made them feel that the ongoing war was for the betterment of their lives in that they considered the war as a fight between the good and the bad as stated by Fox News. The propaganda image pushed pro-British media with the help of religious favor from Protestants who advocated for intrusion in the war, which they considered as a moral crusade. Wilson’s rhetoric had a major inspiration in the colonialists since they were disparately in need of social and economic justice and exactly that was Wilson’s rhetoric. He got elected for the second time because of his wise philosophies, which kept the United States at par with the war in the Europe and Middle East. He preached democracy promised negotiation through democracy but in the discussion under closed doors, the plan was coming up with a new map containing colonial territories of the loses of the war.
Versailles treaty is one of the most contemptable and voracious treaties in the books of history. This treaty shattered hopes for decolonization further since it led to World War II (Thompson et al. 18). The treaty was a blatant act of bootie perpetrated by swam of robbers intending to feed on the bleeding Germany after the First World War. The treaty reveals some of the inner working of imperialists’ diplomacy and the polished reality of power politics plus material lurk behind certain flowery phrases about liberty, pacifism, humanitarianism and democracy. In this treaty, leaders of the civilized world bartered like merchants to carve Europe and distribute the world into colonies of interest. From that point onwards, the treaty shattered the hopes of decolonization leading to World War II.
Work cited
Tindall, George Brown, and David E. Shi. America: A narrative history. WW Norton & Company, 2016. Pp 12-15.
Thompson, John M. Russia, Bolshevism, and the Versailles Peace. Princeton University Press, 2015. Pp 17-20.
