The Great War 1914-1918

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Wilson's 14 Points

II. Free navigation of all seas.
  • I don't believe that this completely exists in today's world because in many places in the world such as Somalia boats are attacked and robbed and there are taxes to ship goods from country to country.
  
III. An end to all economic barriers between countries.
  • I don't believe this exists either because countries fight about resources and prices all the time, an example of this would be gas prices rising and falling due to problems in the countries it is bought from.

IV.Countries to reduce weapon numbers.
  • This does not exist today because many countries have large amounts of weapons and basically it's an arms race to see who can get the most powerful one. An example would be atomic and nuclear weapons.

XIV. A League of Nations should be set up to guarantee the political and territorial
       independence of all states.
  • This does still exist today in the form of the United Nations, where leaders of countries meet up and discuss politics and territorial issues from time to time. They also exist to try and keep the peace between countries, though it isn't seeming to be working too much lately.



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