Wilson outlined fourteen points that included the end of secret diplomacy, armament reductions, freedom of the seas, and the creation of an international organization with representatives of every nation to avoid any conflict escalation.
But the European allied nations were more interested in retribution than peace and Germany was forced to pay unlimited reparations. While the Fourteen Points were all ignored, Wilson did get approval for a league of nations. However, back in the US, he encountered opposition from isolationist Republicans in Congress who thought the League could limit the country’s autonomy and drag the country into another war.
Lincoln hoped to use a well-known figure of speech to help rouse the people to recognition of the magnitude of the ongoing debates over the legality of slavery. His use of this paraphrased metaphor is perhaps clearer when you look at some more of his speech:
"A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe the government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South.
As you can see, in this metaphor, the "house" refers to the Union — to the United States of America — and that house was divided between the opponents and advocates of slavery. Lincoln felt that the ideals of freedom for all and the institution of slavery could not coexist — morally, socially, or legally — under one nation. Slavery must ultimately be universally accepted or universally denied.
They were examples of US policies designed to curb the spread of communism.
Explanation:
- The domino effect or domino theory is a Cold War political term first used publicly by US President Dwight Eisenhower in 1954.
- During the Cold War, Western countries, and especially the United States, assumed a sudden territorial expansion of the Soviet Union and communist ideology. Domino theory assumes that in the event of a country falling into "communist hands", all its neighbors fall under its influence and in the short term also become communist. As dominoes, all the countries of that region would become communist and communism would spread uncontrollably.
- The Truman Doctrine is a US foreign policy plan to stop the spread of communism by giving Turkey and Greece economic aid.
- Marshall plan was the official plan of the United States to rebuild post-war Europe and counter the impact of communism after World War II.
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