President Wilson developed his "14 Points" to usher in a period of world peace after the devastation of World War I. Considering there are several conflicts going on currently in the world, do you believe any of Wilson's points would help establish world peace? If so, which points would be effective. Be sure to explain yourself.
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Alli L.
12/8/2015 06:40:16 pm
President Wilson developed his "14 Points" to usher in a period of world peace after the devastation of World War I. Considering there are several conflicts going on currently in the world, do you believe any of Wilson's points would help establish world peace? If so, which points would be effective. Be sure to explain yourself.
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Bethany
12/8/2015 08:27:34 pm
I do not believe Wilson's 14 points could apply to what's going on in today's world. I agree with the people who met for the Treaty of Versailles that his plan was honorable, but idealistic only. None of these points would be able to work the way they were intended to. They had good intentions, but unrealistic ideas. Peace right now seems very, very far away. The fact that every nation seems so separated right now would mean that his 14 points plan could never work because we're so far gone from being a peaceful "League of Nations".
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Lindsay
12/8/2015 08:49:06 pm
I agree with what Bethany said because all of Wilson's points were created with a nation that was willing to compromise in mind. Currently, most countries would not be willing to comply with the changes that the system discusses. I also think that many people are so inclined to going directly to fighting that reaching a nation of people would quite diffucult.The world is not ready to compromise, thus leaving us in a nation of fighting.
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Lindsay
12/8/2015 08:50:34 pm
*Peace not people lol
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Dominic L.
12/8/2015 09:04:34 pm
President Wilson's "Fourteen Points" were developed to usher in a period of world peace after the devastation of World War I. Today, it would not be as easy to establish peace between all countries as Wilson writes in his "Fourteen Points". Many nations have contrasting views on what peace looks like and how it is obtained. Keeping all of these perspectives in mind, it would be very difficult to come to a compromise where every nation is pleased.
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Sean
12/8/2015 09:18:51 pm
I don’t not believe Wilson’s fourteen points could apply to what’s going on in today’s world. When Wilson created these points World War I had just ended and almost every country was ready for peace. However, currently in the world there is chaos everywhere. Although Wilson’s fourteen points have good intentions they are unrealistic because with all the hate going around the world whether it is for economic reasons or religious reason. Even if other countries were willing to agree with the fourteen points to obtain peace it would still there be impossible because there are different terror groups. Therefore, with all of this hate the world would not be able to compromise and fail to view each other as equals.
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Derek D
12/8/2015 09:21:30 pm
Woodrow Wilson’s “Fourteen Points” expressed his and America’s view on how to make the world a better, safer, and peaceful place. His main ideas of the 14 points were that worldwide democracy was a necessity so that the nations of the world could unite as one and keep the international peace and safety. To maintain this democracy, the League of Nations would need to be formed, where all nations would be unified, no secrets kept from one another, and opposing allies would be removed. However, this seemingly perfect plan would not keep peace for long. I believe if the nations of the world were to agree to these points and join the League of Nations, there would be international peace, but only for a very short time. Like the modern day world, especially in the Middle East, disagreeing opinions and anti-American feelings will show, and revolutions will take place around the world. America will be criticized as imperializing the world and forcing everyone into a democracy they may or may not want. Soon enough, anti-Americans and members of the Central Powers will feel the strong urge to gain their independence to rule as they please, and they will turn against America and the Allied Powers, bringing a quicker World War 2, and making the current World War 2, World War 3. No matter what the opinion, there is always someone somewhere who disagrees with it, and when the safety and peace of the world is involved, some may not be willing to comply.
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Eleni
12/8/2015 09:43:32 pm
I do not believe that President Woodrow Wilson's fourteen points would be useful in an attempt to usher in peace in the world today. The reason being that we could never get all of the nations to agree to one set of principles. Each country has different motives for war and diverse ideas of peace. The world today does not consist of nations that are willing to find a middle ground. Wilson's fourteen points are based off of compromise and creating a unity of nations. Today, countries are not willing to do that for two reasons, the world is not currently coming off of a big world war so peace is not a top priority and groups like ISIS would not be willing to comply because of their religious beliefs and different views. Wilson's points had good intendments, however they are impractical today.
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Jake Charbonneau
12/8/2015 09:46:12 pm
President Wilson's Fourteen Points plan would be very short-lived if an attempt was made to apply them globally today. He advocates world peace among all nations. However, currently, virtually ever nation is either in some form of conflict with another, or supporting another nations campaign. To get all nations to come together and agree to peace would be nearly impossible. Also, you have to factor in the number of countries that would be part of a modern-day "League of Nations". With such a high quantity of countries, conflicts over one thing or another are bound to arise. Because of these reasons, Wilson's Fourteen Points plan would not last long today, just as it didn't seem to last too long then.
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Tyler Balon
12/8/2015 09:52:52 pm
While Wilson's 14 Point Plan was designed to usher peace, it ultimately failed during WWI and would not succeed today. When observing the current conflicts the United States and other major nations are involved in, such as the ongoing conflict with terror organizations such as ISIS, it is hard to see extremists jumping on the whole "peace" bandwagon any time soon. Wilson's plan called for open diplomacy, freedom of the seas, removal of economic barriers, and the reduction of armaments. Wilson's ideas are very idealistic and couldn't prevent WWI so I am doubtful that these 14 points would solve the much more complex political, social, and religious conflicts we face today. In addition to this, Wilson also called for the creation of the League of Nations which was the prelude to the United Nations. While one may argue that the collaborative efforts of these nations have accomplished a significant deal, all one has to do is analyze the United Nations tremendous accomplishment when it came to genocide. Yes that's right, they stopped all genocide. It's doesn't exist anymore. Nowhere. Extinct. Due to these reasons, Wilsons 14 Point Plan will not ever work to create world peace, especially in the world we live in today.
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Sandra Nkwantabisa
12/8/2015 11:22:17 pm
I agree with you on the 14 points would not work in today's world but have come to a disagreement on the 14 points trying to prevent World War 1. The point of Wilsons "14 Points" was to find a way to put an end to the War and create peace, it wasn't made to prevent the war from happening since it was written 10 months before the war ended. If it was trying to prevent the war it would have been written before for the other nations to follow. Also the comment about genocide being extinct? I do not know if you were being sarcastic but genocide still exists, it just is not shown in the media as far as other things in pop culture or if it does threaten Western Civilizations immediately. There is many genocide killings that are still happening in many different countries for example in Nigeria, Boko Haram killed an estimated 2,000 civilians by burning down a town called Baga. There is also a genocide going on in Somalia and in Central Africa.
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Matthew Krawetz
12/8/2015 10:46:00 pm
As others have previously stated, Wilson has written these points when preparing for the War to end, so his points were made on the idea that the countries would be willing to make peace. In this day and age, the world is not as willing to make peace, and even if we were, there is never going to be a way to make all the countries agree on one set of rules and regulations. It is not a plausible situation because someone is always going to have something bad to say, and many nations may turn on each other. Wilson wanted there to be no secrecy among relations between countries because alliances are one of the reasons the war started in the first place, but it seems highly unlikely that countries would willingly give up their relations to the public because if there is ever another world war, we would be able to plan our attack far in advance and there would be mass destruction, so I do not think any of Wilson’s 14 points would be relevant in today’s society. Peace among all nations is just not a plausible situation and is very idealistic like other students have said.
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Ben Reeves (Bio Ben)
12/8/2015 10:58:17 pm
Although I believe that some of Wilson's fourteen points would help world conflict nowadays, I also believe that peace between all countries would never be achieved, even with the help of things such as the fourteen points. The fourteen points promoted the right attitudes that nations should have toward each other but they could never be upheld because of groups in opposition to peace. But, as I said before, some could have a positive effect on world peace. Points two and three were among the few points that I thought would be effective and not receive large amounts of opposition. With the removal of economic barriers, weaker countries would feel less threatened by the large corporate trade relations of stronger countries. They would have their own part in trade with powerful nations and therefore able to compete. In point two, the open water would make nations less prone to fight for territories such as islands because they already would be permitted to use the oceans for transportation and population. So, while I see Wilson's points to be a step in the right direction, I do not believe that they would be able to achieve peace and security for the world.
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Sandra Nkwantabisa
12/8/2015 11:06:40 pm
Considering the various different conflicts going on in the world, Wilsons "14 Points" would not help establish world peace. In a perfect world, all of his points could be followed but realistically in today's world, the idea of world peace is comforting but not achievable. All of Wilson's "14 Points" are trying to find a happy medium for conflicts after the fact of the war but if a war was supposed to break out today and the results were devastating to a country, they wouldn't be looking for equal treatment, they would be looking for revenge or some kind of punishment. For example, the ISIS threats, none of Wilsons points would help put an end to terrorism which is the biggest problem to the U.S. and other European countries. Wilsons points are creating policies for equal trade and restoring land but many of conflicts in the world go further than looking for equality. Paris was bombed by ISIS and retaliated by bombing Syria in order to kill "ISIS" which backfired because they ended up bombing a children's hospital instead. Where would Wilsons "14 Points" help in situations like this? His points could not help in a situation like this because they do not cover all the possible conflicts that could occur other than settling territory disputes and free navigations on the seas. Wilsons "14 Points" also would not help with the Boko Haram violence in Nigeria, or the Civil War in Syria, or the Isreali-Palestine conflicts because the 14 points aren't made for these kind of situations. World problems are increasingly getting worse, Wilsons "14 Points" was a good layout for world Peace during World War 1 but in today's world it could not establish world peace.
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Abby M
12/8/2015 11:34:35 pm
After the devestation of World War I, Wilson's Fourteen Points were developed in attempt to achieve a period of world peace. Today, these points would not help the conflict present in this world.So many different views are present in society today and many individuals are unwilling to compromise to benefit society as a whole. There are also terrorist groups and many new technological developments that make it harder to achieve peace. These ideas are unrealistic because not all nations will be satisfied at the same time due to varying beliefs.
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Victoria Lane
12/8/2015 11:45:33 pm
After World War I had ended Wilson came up with 14 points to help keep peace between the countries. However the purport of these points was not successful as proven when World War II broke out. Peace could not be kept for long and Wilson’s goal of world peace was not achieved. Over the years people’s mind sets and opinions have become even more extreme and this does not make it likely for Wilson’s points to make a difference and form peace in today’s time. Today we live in a world of such broad mind sets and different views on what’s right and wrong when it comes to many aspects of life like government and religion that for the world to have world peace is a reach and not realistically going to happen. As of right now people believe in their way and their way only so 14 points will not get them to come down from their stand of what they think is right. Unfortunately do to these standards Wilson’s points will not form world peace in today’s time either.
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Leila
12/8/2015 11:59:23 pm
President Wilson's peace plan included 14 points for you more democratic and peaceful world including self-determination and a League of Nations. In the meantime when these 14 points were formed, World War 1 had just ended. By this time, almost every country wanted peace. Considering the multiple conflicts going on currently in the world, I believe that Wilsons points would not help establish world peace. Looking at the world right now, it is full of chaos and disorder. Realistically, getting all of the nations to come together and make peace is on the verge of impossible. not everyone believes in the same things, there are different religions, and together it would not work to achieve peace. Considering terrorist groups and new advanced in technology, having world peave would be near impossible which is why Wilsons 14 points would not help establish world peace.
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Julia Germani
12/9/2015 08:20:28 am
President Wilson created a 14 point plan in order to ensure world peace at the end of world war 1. While this may have been an effective plan back then, it certainly would not be one today. At the time period this plan was released every country had just finished fighting, and were ready for there to be peace in the world. Currently, there are so many issues in the world that people still have to work out in order for peace to be desired. Also, nowadays there are so many different cultural, economic, and social views that it would be impossible to reach a consensus on a single set of principles for numerous countries to all follow.
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Nate Heon
12/9/2015 08:40:42 am
I believe only one of Wilson's "14 points" would be applicable in the world today. With the events going on right now the only point that could be applied to current events is the first one. In it Wilson describes that no country should have or make any secret agreements with other countries. This would be applicable in today's society, but I do not believe that it would be followed. The idea is good, but with the animosity between some nations it would be impossible to enforce this idea. This is why for the most part his 14 points would not be applicable in today's society.
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Alexi F.
12/9/2015 10:24:03 am
In Wilsons 14 points, he names multiple ways he believes the world can achieve peace after the first World War. At that time, it may have helped if they tried to accomplish all of those points but if it were tried now it wouldn't work as easily to get world peace. The reasoning for that is because there are too many different views from people around the world. A compromise amoung these views would be hard to achieve which is why world peace has not been achieved yet. The nations of the world have not been spending their time trying to be peaceful with the others, instead they have actually been getting further apart which is making world peace harder to get.
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Erika
12/9/2015 11:33:30 am
I do not believe Wilson's Fourteen points would be useful in an attempt to create peace in the world today. His points were centered around all countries uniting and maintaining peaceful and productive relationships across the globe. The ideas that economic barriers should be broken down, oceans should belong to all, and the reduction of the use of military weapon and power are simply unrealistic Utopian ideas. Yes, it would be great to break barriers and live as one in peace and comfort, but regarding issues across the globe today, it is just not realistic. Between mass shootings, racial injustice, acts of terrorism, and overall the hate being spread across nations, there would be no way everyone would be willing to set all these issues aside and make peace. Countries would not be willing to give up territory to make it neutral, they would not be willing to reduce military power, and they would not be willing to break economic and social barriers to create a world wide peace. As previously stated, the fourteen points were great ideas, but they are simply too out of reach to work.
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Zack
12/9/2015 11:51:05 am
I don’t not believe Wilson’s fourteen points could apply to what’s going on in the world. When President Wilson created these points World War I had just ended and most of the countries were ready for peace. However, currently in the world there is chaos. Although Wilson’s fourteen points had good intentions, they would be unrealistic because there is constant problems around the world whether it is for economic reasons or religious reason. Also if other countries were willing to agree with the fourteen points to obtain peace, it would not last because there are different terror groups in the world making constant threats.
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justin branco
12/9/2015 12:22:19 pm
There is always conflict in the world, there has never been a time when the whole world has been at peace. So yes Wilson's plan and points would help establish peace if followed. If we followed Wilson's points and made sure everyone was treated equally and there was always peaceful negotiations instead of violent actions. Granted the only way for this to work would be for all the world leaders to follow this, not just some. For this to be possible the world would have to see everyone as equal and give equal opportunities to all. So in conclusion, yes if the points were followed then of course the world would be peaceful and the people of the world would prosper.
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Mackenzie Waycott
12/9/2015 12:29:25 pm
I personally don't believe that Woodrow Wilson's 14 point system could apply to everything that's going on in the world. Wilson believes that he can achieve peace after World War 1. His system would not work in today's world but back then it could have seemed to work. His points were all revolved around all countries maintaining peace between each other. Wilsons idea of economic barriers being broken down to increase trade were unrealistic. The 14 point system were a good idea but would have only worked during that time period and not currently in today's society.
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Steven Anzivino
12/9/2015 12:35:46 pm
I believe that Willson's fourth point of reducing countries armaments helps to achieve world peace due to an overall reduction of weapons in the world. If one country begins to create weapons then all of the nearby countries should be able to unite, crush and sanction the warm ongoing country.
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Garrett Scahill
12/9/2015 12:39:37 pm
Wilson's 14 points were brilliant. Today the points could easily be applied to the struggle against ISIL. I feel that maybe a small part of the struggle is ISIL being afraid of the repercussions of declaring peace. One of Wilson's points was to not have those sorts of repercussions towards the enemy.
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James Koz
12/9/2015 01:38:21 pm
Wilsons fourteen points were made up in attempt to achieve world peace after world war 1. His points might have worked back then but today it would not work. Today there are a vast amount of social, economic, and cultural views that it would make it almost impossible to come to a consensus.
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