Versailles #12: Woodrow Wilson Profile Part 2/2
When Diplomacy Fails Podcast
Zack Twamley
4.8 • 773 Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2018
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points are an integral part of what made the end of the First World War so fascinating, but also so confusing. Did the President want to go easy on Germans for the sake of it, or did he have more ambitious goals in mind? Was he as determined to remake the post-war order as we are often told, or were these fourteen points simply a smokescreen for the imperialistic policies which the president wished to pursue? The answers to these questions are not clear cut, but join us for episode twelve where we discuss each of these points in turn, assess how they were received by the international community, examine the impact of each point, and then detail the president's feelings on the document which he had just communicated to the world. The Fourteen Points were supremely important, not least because they represented the first true statement of peace terms revealed by any of the allies. Coming as they did in January 1918, the end of the war was some way off, but it is impossible to understate their importance as the months ticked by. As the provided image shows, Germany made use of these points as the basis for a peace settlement which, they hoped, would grant them what they wanted. For a variety of reasons, they were to be sorely mistaken...
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there, history friends, Zach Twomney here. |
| 0:02.3 | You're about to listen to Part 2 of the Woodrow Wilson Profile. |
| 0:05.8 | This episode is about half the size of the last one, but it delves into the 14 points, |
| 0:10.3 | so if you're curious about that, you've come to the right place. |
| 0:12.7 | If you've no idea where you are right now, this is when diplomacy fails, |
| 0:16.2 | and you're listening to the Versailles Anniversary Project, a project which is tasked with, well, detailing the buildup |
| 0:22.0 | to the signing of that very important treaty in history, complete with all the controversies, |
| 0:27.7 | characters and chaos that went around during it. |
| 0:31.8 | Me, I'm Zach Twomley, and I have been doing this for more than six years. |
| 0:36.1 | I've been able to do it for so long because, well, I have the patience of a saint and I really enjoy doing it. |
| 0:41.9 | But I've also been able to do it because you guys support this podcast so well. |
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