Do you think Wilson's 14 Points would truly have prevented future wars in Europe? Explain why or why not. Be sure to respond to a classmate's post as well!
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Ashley C
3/11/2010 11:33:47 am
I think that Woodrow Wilson's plan may have worked for awhile but would of failed in the end. With the changing of times and rough events to come, someone would break the agreement and all chaos would break loose and country would be after country.
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Molly G
3/12/2010 05:48:46 am
Wilson’s 14 Points would have prevented some future conflicts with Europe, but not all wars. Some conflicts are inevitable, such as the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. Some conflicts are avoidable though. The best proposal of Wilson’s 14 points, that would have prevented future war, was his first point. A major cause of war and conflict is miscommunication. Having open communication and international understandings is the best way to eliminate this problem. Wilson was very smart in this point. This alone, would have prevented future conflicts, but as we know this idealistic proposal was not followed by all countries, and can lead to war.
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Molly G
3/12/2010 05:51:17 am
I agree with Ashley, in that Wilson’s Points would only have worked for a short amount of time. They were rational proposals, but not all countries would have followed them. Countries would break their promises and keep secrets from other countries. We have seen this happen all throughout history, and it can cause major turmoil.
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Taylor D.
3/12/2010 10:24:14 pm
I think that had nations actually tried to follow his points and really wanted to achieve world peace, some major wars and issues could have been avoided. I don't think there is any treaty or group that would totally prevent any war from ever happening, not when there is so much corruption in some governments. I thought Wilson's points were very interesting and he had some great ideas, I just don't know how realistic they are.
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Taylor D.
3/12/2010 10:28:42 pm
I agree with Molly; obviously assassinations aren't going to be avoidable. You can't prevent someone from killing a government official. Yet, like Molly said, Wilson's first point was a very easy thing to do. Open communication would do us wonders if we talked to other nations, not just threaten them. We could even do that in Iraq. What if we asked how to help them get to where they want to be? Maybe they don't want democracy, or they might have different ideals for their country.
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Ashley C
3/13/2010 06:16:44 am
I like how Taylor kind of touched on the point of corrupt governments. With so many different ways and views of how to run a government how would we all get along? How would the democrats and the communists agree? Or the anarchists and monarchys? The points just would not have lasted very long, although a good try it was.
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Paige L
3/14/2010 10:00:26 am
I also believe that Wilson's points could have worked if society worked together to enforce them but in the end, they probably would've ended up not using them. He said some great ideas, but I also agree with them maybe not being very realistic.
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Ryan H.
3/14/2010 11:23:43 am
Wilson's points were a good in theory, but since when has world peace been easy? You can tell a child to behave, but when they get angry they will do whatever they want. When other countries get mad, they won't care what the U.S. has to say. If everyone were to follow Wilson's idea, then it may have worked. Since that was very unlikely, it was only a matter of time before fights broke out.
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Amberleigh V.
3/14/2010 11:25:21 am
A lot of the points he made dealt with the fact that countries should be able to govern themselves and by their own people. This is good because territory would not be fought over if people stayed in their own countries instead of trying to become a super empire. That would have minimalized conflict over boundaries. I don’t think that all of his points would have prevented future wars or conflicts though. It’s practically impossible for everyone to always get along because not everyone believes the same things or has the same opinions. With point number 4, it talks about weapons being reduced… countries and the government like their weapons, and they like to upgrade them as much as possible. I don’t think it is possible to get everyone to stop the production of weapons, which then creates room for conflict.
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Ryan H.
3/14/2010 11:25:38 am
Ashley is right, it was only a matter of time before another country broke the agreement.
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Sarah
3/14/2010 11:26:39 am
I do not think the Wilson's 14 Points would have truly prevented future wars in Europe. Wilson's 14 Points would have strengthened relations and prolonged peace but by no means would it have prevented war. Realistically, there is no way to truly prevent war, in modern society. That's because everyone has to want it and be willing to work for it. The majority may want peace but the few who don't will hold them back.
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Sarah
3/14/2010 11:28:35 am
I agree with Molly, that not all conflicts can be prevented, because some are inevitable. They are going to happen no matter what.
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Amberleigh V.
3/14/2010 11:29:33 am
I complete agree with Taylor when she talks about how Wilson’s points were nice and desirable, but not very realistic. With so many different views and outlooks on things in our world, it is hard to imagine world peace. These blogs we do prove that point exactly. We all have our own input and we sometimes agree and sometimes disagree with other people... and then sometimes (in other instances) people really disagree with each other and conflict arises.
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Ted S.
3/14/2010 11:47:33 am
I think that Wilson's 14 points would have been a monumentous help to preventing war. However, war is an inevitable truth. There is no way to completely prevent conflict, as it is in human nature.
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Ted S.
3/14/2010 11:49:39 am
I agree with Sarah. Realistically, there is no way to prevent war in war in modern society.
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Bobby C.
3/14/2010 12:10:31 pm
I think Wilson's fourteen points would have prevented future wars if the nations would have followed them. Of course if the nations did decide to follow them there would be a nation to break the fourteen points so they could start a war.
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Bobby C.
3/14/2010 12:16:14 pm
I agree with Paige. Wilson talked a good game, but getting all the nations to follow his points all the time would have been impossible. His points could prevent wars but they are not that hard for nations to ignore so they could start a war.
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Zain B
3/14/2010 01:25:57 pm
I think Wilson's 14 points were no where near what was needed to prevent future war in Europe. The 14 points were only a short term fix to the animosity between the European nations and only made concessions that restored mostly everything to its former state. Since war began previously in the same situation it was bound to happen again. Wilson's attempt at making each nation independent was a major flaw to this, the more nations there are that think on their own the more likely they will think differently and grow aggressive towards each other.
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Zain B
3/14/2010 01:30:27 pm
I agree with Taylor, their really is no fix that will stop all war. Corruption and greed prevent this from ever happening, and like Taylor said the only way for this to even be close to working was if everyone was on-board. This is impossible, you cant get everyone to agree on one thing no matter what it is.
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Paige L
3/15/2010 02:21:16 am
I agree with Ted in him saying that war isn't always preventable, it's human nature. This is a very true statement. Even though Wilson made very good points they probably wouldn't of helped very much to prevent the war. Especially with all of the tension among the nations.
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Brian W
3/15/2010 09:34:04 am
Wilson’s 14 points could not have prevented future wars. Wilson’s 14 points were a compilation of guidelines and specific questions that needed to be answered at the end of the war. Wilson authored the points after research by over 150 political and social scientists. For them to truly have an affect on world peace, the idea of the 14 points needed to be offered to the nations through the League of Nations, where each country could speak their own opinion. If the points were agreed upon by the nations, they would be thrown out when a terrorist attack or threat happened.
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Brian W
3/15/2010 09:36:22 am
I agree with Sarah that all conflicts cannot be prevented.
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Craig J
3/15/2010 12:29:12 pm
The only way that the 14 points would
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Craig J
3/15/2010 12:31:51 pm
Ryan makes a good comparison when he says that you can tell a child to behave, but when they get angry they will do whatever they want. Its a good and accurate anology.
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Brianna
3/15/2010 12:35:48 pm
I do not think that all of wars in Europe would have or even could have been avoided no matter what, especially not Wilson's 14 points. don't get me wrong his 14 points were good and yes they may have helped prevent some conflicts, but in the long run it would have never stopped all war in Europe. I mean can you ever really stop war anywhere for good?
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Brianna
3/15/2010 12:37:32 pm
Once again I agree with Ashley Wilson's 14 points could have stopped conflict for a while but in the long run things do change and rules and laws change. They would have never really held up forever to prevent war.
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Austin B
3/15/2010 01:06:39 pm
The fourteen points would have never worked unless we were to enforce them in European countries. While it wouldn't be un-American for us to try to control other nations even across an ocean, it would not be needed. Wilson was trying too hard, and everybody entertained that his fourteen points were a good idea, when he really just put an idealistic 'peace' plan onto paper without really much thought at all.
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Muma
3/15/2010 01:09:50 pm
Wilson's fourteen points would not have prevented further war in Europe. There will always be war. Greed is a powerful motivator and it always seems to be behind a war effort by any given country. It doesn't matter, greed, whether it is a lust for money, power, land, or resources. Greed will always be around, and will always be the root cause of war.
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Muma
3/15/2010 01:11:42 pm
I agree with Ted. On top of greed, jealousy and anger cause conflict. There will always be conflict and there will always be a country claiming to carry the biggest stick.
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Austin B
3/15/2010 01:12:29 pm
I agree with Mr. Ted. War is an inevitable solution to many problems, and while the fourteen points would have made for a really nice plan, humans are angry, and sometimes fighting just gets the job done. No matter how many tree-huggin' hippies there are, there will always be war. We are a primitive people, no matter how advanced we are, because of our basic animal instincts. Edwin Starr was wrong. War HUH! YEAH! It's good for a lot.
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Austin B
3/15/2010 01:13:16 pm
Dude, Ken. We both agreed with Ted. That was cool.
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Natalie
3/15/2010 01:33:05 pm
i think wilson had a good idea with the 14 points but in theory it really didnt work out. it was mainly a peace program and for it to be successful everyone had to be on board and we all know thats impossible with everyone wanting and needing different things. people and nations are selfish. i think the 14 points created conflict within its own points. it was great idea but not that realistic
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Natalie
3/15/2010 01:35:13 pm
i agree with ken greed is really powerful and like austin said we didnt need to control overseas it would be unneeded.
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Morgan P
3/16/2010 11:49:50 am
I believe that Wilson's 14 points would not have worked to prevent future wars in Europe this is because to have all of the countries to agree to this plans was close to impossible. But if all of them felt the same way and agreed to them it would have been perfect, but the reality is there is barely anything that all of the countries can all agree on.
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Morgan P
3/16/2010 11:50:29 am
I agree with Nat in saying that they would never all agree on one thing because they all want different things.
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